Two days in the past, Narendra Giri was discovered lifeless in his room at Baghambari math, after which police claimed to have discovered a seven-page ‘suicide be aware’ wherein the mahant held Anand Giri, moreover two others, chargeable for his demise. On Wednesday, the Prayagraj police arrested Anand Giri and Adhya Prasad Tiwari, one other of Narendra Giri’s disciples, after questioning them at size.

This, nonetheless, isn’t Anand Giri’s first brush with controversy.

Anand Giri, 38, a priest on the Naked Hanuman Temple in Prayagraj, who refers to himself as “religious chief” and “yoga guru”, is understood to stay it up — there are pictures circulating on social media of him in luxurious motels and on seashores, in fancy automobiles and bikes.

Born in a decrease center class farming household in Bhilwada, Rajasthan, Anand Giri is understood to have left his home at 12 and joined a gurukul in Haridwar. He has usually claimed that he did so to realize a greater understanding of the Vedas and Sanskrit. On his web site, Anand Giri claims to have acquired a Bachelor’s diploma from Banaras Hindu College.

Anand Giri later got here to Baghambari Math and have become a disciple of Narendra Giri, the mahant of Naked Hanuman Mandir, who inducted him into his Niranjani akhara. Over time, Anand Giri turned one in all Narendra Giri closest disciples and was usually spoken of as his inheritor obvious.

As deputy mahant of the Naked Hanuman Temple, which comes underneath Narendra Giri’s Baghambari Math, Anand Giri, aside from conducting prayers on the temple, established himself as a yoga guru, travelling throughout the nation and likewise overseas, giving lectures and reciting the Ram Katha.

Anand Giri’s fast rise within the math and the akhara, coupled along with his high-flying life-style, led to whispers amongst different disciples and sadhus, however Narendra Giri stood by his disciple.

However their relationship started souring earlier this 12 months after Anand Giri began accusing his mentor of fraud within the alleged sale of land belonging to the akhara.

The akhara is claimed to have in its possession acres of land not simply in Prayagraj and neighbouring districts but additionally in Haridwar, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

Earlier this 12 months, their relationship took a flip for the more serious after Narendra Giri, who examined constructive for Covid, was discharged from a hospital in Haridwar and got here again to the mathematics. The general public tussle between the mentor and the disciple intensified, with Anand Giri’s followers utilizing social media to degree fees of fraud towards Narendra Giri.

It was then that Narendra Giri received Anand Giri expelled from the mathematics and the akhara. An indignant Anand Giri claimed to have written to the President of India, the Prime Minister in addition to police demanding an investigation into his mentor’s actions.

Two months in the past, the mathematics launched a video, claiming the dispute between the 2 had been settled. Within the video, Anand Giri was proven touching Narendra Giri’s ft, after which the mahant mentioned Anand Giri has apologised. Sources, nonetheless, mentioned the variations between the 2 continued.