NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Chaitanyananda Saraswati, alias Parthasarathy, in a case of alleged cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. He also faces a case of allegedly sexually harassing 17 female students at a private institute in Delhi, called Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management Research, where he was the director. Chaitanyananda is on the run. Police said they have frozen approximately Rs 8 crore across 18 accounts and 28 fixed deposits linked to a trust he had established. The investigating officer said in court that the swami's mobile phone was switched off. Additional sessions judge Hardeep Kaur said the investigation is at a nascent stage. Denying bail, she said that the IO requires custodial interrogation of the sus

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