Man posed as sadhu dupes jeweller’s spouse of Rs 1.75 crore, held

A conman masquerading as a sadhu was arrested in Rishikesh for allegedly duping a jeweller’s spouse of money and jewelry value round Rs 1.75 crore, police stated on Monday.
Mahendra Rode, aka, Yogi Priyavrat Animesh was arrested from Cottage no 21 of Nature Villa at Lal Tappar space late on Sunday night time, Rishikesh DSP Dinesh Chandra Dhaundiyal stated.
Gold and silver jewelry value practically Rs 10 lakh was additionally recovered from his possession, he stated.
The conman had lately gotten his ebook ‘Manas Moti’ launched by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, police stated.
He is being interrogated after being taken into judicial remand for 14 days, they added.
The arrest was made after a case was registered in opposition to him based mostly on a criticism filed by a widely known jeweller of Rishikesh, Hitendra Panwar, who accused Animesh of duping his spouse of money and jewelry, Dhaundiyal stated.
According to the criticism, the jeweller’s spouse was mentally unstable and fell into the imposter’s entice in a bid to hunt remedy.
The high-profile cheat was in a behavior of getting himself photographed with influential individuals together with politicians and posting the images on Facebook to flaunt his contacts. Moving round within the garb of a sadhu he used to search for gentle targets and cheat them of their cash, police stated.
Several instances are lodged in opposition to Animesh at Karnal in Haryana. He was despatched to jail twice up to now in reference to totally different instances, the official stated.
Efforts are underway to get well the looted money and jewelry from him, the DSP stated.