Harda (MP), March 17: A 90-year-old man, who claimed himself as the disciple of Yoga Guru Ramdev, was today detained by the police for allegedly cheating childless couples in the state.
Shivdayal Sharma alias Swami Baba cheated many childless couples across the state, police said.
Sharma has taken money ranging from Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 from many couples without a child with the promise to give them medicine to enable them to have kids, they said.
Sharma had organised his health camps at Dhar and other places and assured the couples that his head office was at Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogavidhya Peeth in Haridwar. He claimed he gets medicines from Ramdev, police said.
“We got an information that Shivdayal Sharma was treating people at Sirkamba village at his camp. We detained him yesterday,” Timrani Police Station House Officer Ramprasad Kusmarkar said.
–Agencies