From MP to DM,godman played host to all at his Chitrakoot ashram
Self-styled godman Swami Shiv Murat Dwivedi alias Swami Bhimanandji Maharaj alias Swami Ichchadhari Sant arrested on Friday for allegedly running a sex racket has links with several influential people back home in Chitrakoot district,Uttar Pradesh.
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Self-styled godman Swami Shiv Murat Dwivedi alias Swami Bhimanandji Maharaj alias Swami Ichchadhari Sant arrested on Friday for allegedly running a sex racket has links with several influential people back home in Chitrakoot district,Uttar Pradesh.
A four-day programme he organised at his ashram at Chamrauha village in October 18,2009,was inaugurated by Hridesh Kumar,then district magistrate of Chitrakoot. The Samjawadi Party (SP) MP from Banda,RK Singh Patel,SP Member of Legislative Council Yuvraj Singh,and slain dacoit Daduas son and zila panchayat chairman Veer Singh were special invitees on the occasion. In hoardings,Rural Development minister Daddu Prasad was named as the chief guest for the programme. He did not attend. But local BSP leaders like Vinod Kumar Dwivedi,the block pramukh of Manikpur,did attend and stayed for the cultural programme by girls from Delhi.
A month after the programme,Manikpur police lodged an FIR against the godman and three others for a clash during the dance programme,said K K Mishra,Station House Officer of Manikpur.
Officials said Hridesh Kumar,who inaugurated the programme,also issued a rifle licence to the godman. Kumar,who is currently the District Magistrate of Ghazipur,refused to comment.
Lok Sabha member R K Singh Patel said he did not know the godman personally. But I know his father Bachcha Lal, he said. Being the MP from the area,I accepted the invitation. If he is running a sex racket,he must be punished. I dont have any connection with him. MLC Yuvraj Singh said: Our society respects godmen. I was invited by Dwivedi,so I went. It was the first and the last time I saw him.
BSP block pramukh Vinod Kumar Dwivedi said he went to the ashram because,like others,I was also invited. I did not know that he was involved in such activities.
The godman often visited Chamrauha which he has renamed Sai Nagar. He is building a large temple in his ashram the work has been on for two years.
On Sunday,the Delhi Police sent a team to Chitrakoot to collect evidence against him and information about his past. Shiv Murat Dwivedi was first arrested in Lajpat Nagar in 1997 for running a prostitution racket in a massage parlour, said DCP (South) HGS Dhaliwal. He had worked at a massage parlour in the area in 1990. During the job,he came in contact with pimps and started the sex racket. He has links with several influential persons and leaders in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
The Chitrakoot police,too,have started collecting details of the criminal activities of his family. His father Bachcha Lal Dwivedi is named in five criminal cases these include murder,dowry death,theft and patronising dacoits. His elder brother Ram Murat Dwivedi was booked for the murder of his wife; younger brothers Sanjay and Krishna Dwivedi were booked in theft cases in 2001. In spite of their criminal past,several members of the family had managed to get arms licences. Bachcha Lal has a licence for a double-barreled gun. Shiv Murat Dwivedi and Sanjay Dwivedi got licences for rifles in 2009. Chitrakoot SP Veer Bahadur Singh said he had asked the Manikpur police to probe how these were issued.
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