Disciple arrested for Mahant Giri’s death

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 21

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who visited Baghambari Muth in Allahabad today to pay his respects to Mahant Narendra Giri Maharaj, said all aspects relating to the death of the seer were being probed and the guilty would be punished.

The seer, who was the president of the largest organisation of sadhus in India, was found hanging by his disciples at the muth yesterday.

“A police team led by the ADG (Allahabad zone) and the Commissioner, Allahabad, is working on the case. It will be cracked soon,” Adityanath told the media.

Meanwhile, the police have arrested seer’s disciple Anand Giri from Haridwar under Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the IPC.

A Special Investigative Team (SIT) has been formed to probe the death.

DIG Sarvashrestha Tripathi said that if needed, the police would conduct lie-detector tests on a few suspects.