Chennai: Chennai CBCID arrested a religious guru Shiva Shankar Baba on Wednesday in New Delhi on the allegations of sexually abusing schoolchildren.

He absconded after Chennai police registered a case against him. The Chennai police booked him under various sections of the IPC, Pocso Act and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act.

As soon as the case was transferred from the Chennai police to the CBCID, Shiva Shankar Baba went missing. The police got information about him; a few days ago he was admitted to a private hospital in Dehradun.

The CBCID team arrived at Dehradun; Shiva Shankar Baba was missing from the hospital. Police sources said he was tracked and arrested from a place on the outskirts of Delhi.

Three cases were registered against Shiva Shankar Baba, said to be the founder of Sushil Hari International Residential School at Kelambakkam in Chennai. Recently, several alumni of the school had posted on social media that Shiva Shankar Baba had sexually abused them when they were studying there.