New Delhi: Summoning students at midnight, sending them lewd texts, coercing them to go out on trips with him, and threatening to ruin their careers if they refused. The allegations against absconding self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati paint a picture of gross abuse of power, enabled by his “cronies” through silence, and intimidation.

Chaitanyananda, the director and chairman of the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management-Research in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, has been accused of serial sexual harassment, blackmail, and coercion by 32 students whose testimonies are now documented in an FIR against him. All 32 students are aged between 21 and 27 years.

The FIR also implicates at least three faculty members, alleging one of them not only turned a blind eye to students’ complaints a

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