Godman Nirmal Baba allegedly used donations from his followers to buy a hotel in Delhi’s Greater Kailash area, media reports said on Sunday.
Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar claimed that Nirmal purchased the hotel for Rs. 30 crore.
The current market value of the hotel is around Rs. 35 crore.
Former owner of the hotel Ashwani Kapoor told a national news channel that Nirmal wanted to start a chain of hotels.
Kapoor further said that he met Baba five times while finalising the deal, which was done through a broker. Nirmal Baba made payments for the hotel from the personal bank account number 15460001 02129694, which is in the name of Nirmaljeet Singh Narula.
A report on Saturday said that over Rs 123 crores were deposited in the godman’s above-mentioned account between January 04 and April 13, 2012.
According to the newspaper, during the same period Rs 105.56 crores were also withdrawn from the same account and the balance as on April 13 was Rs 17.47 crores.
On Friday, the daily had reported that Rs 109 crores were found to be deposited in Nirmal Baba’s two bank accounts in just three months.
–Agencies