DEHRADUN: Days after arresting Yogi Priyavrat alias Robin Khalifa, a fake seer in Haridwar, cops have recovered valuables worth Rs 42 lakh from him.
Yogi Priyavrat, a former wrestler, had been arrested by Rishikesh police for allegedly swindling a jeweller's wife and taking expensive jewellery and valuables from her on the pretext of curing her illness.
Police have recovered statues, rudraksh mala, gold bracelets, gold chain and rings worth Rs 42 lakh from the accused, who was posing as a seer.
The complainant, Hitendar Singh Pawar, who owns a jewellery shop in Rishikesh, lodged an FIR in which he had alleged that the accused under the pretext of healing his wife’s mental illness had hypnotised her.
Pawar also claimed that the accused called his wife at his residence in Doiwala multiple times, since December 2019, and fed her some medicines and swindled the valuables.
Dehradun SSP later ordered the fake seer's arrest.
