Overview
- A 22-year-old BSc nursing student from Chhattisgarh filed a complaint on May 25 alleging she was given milk presented as prasad, lost consciousness, was raped, filmed and later extorted for ₹5 lakh.
- Police arrested 29-year-old Abhishek Mishra, who used the name Adikarta Narayan Das, at his Radha Kund residence on Monday and rescued two young women and a man from the premises; he has been sent to judicial custody.
- An FIR was registered under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita covering extortion, criminal intimidation and sexual harassment, and investigators recovered more than a dozen obscene photos and videos from the accused’s phone.
- Authorities say Mishra built a following through YouTube sermons and social media, targeted educated young women—including engineers—encouraged informal 'Gandharva' unions and used isolation and manipulation to control followers.
- Police are now analysing digital records and financial links to identify additional victims and examine how the ashram-style operation recruited and trapped people, a probe that could prompt further rescues and family outreach.