New Delhi: Three women officials of a private institute here, including an associate dean and senior faculty members, have been arrested in connection with the alleged harassment of female students by self-styled godman Chaitanyanand Saraswati, police said on Thursday.

The accused, identified as Associate Dean Shweta Sharma, Executive Director Bhawna Kapil and Senior Faculty Kajal, were booked for abetment, threatening, and destruction of evidence, they said.

During interrogation, they admitted following the directions of 62-year-old Saraswati and pressuring students under the pretext of discipline and punctuality, they said, adding that they used to threaten the victims and make them delete Saraswati’s lewd messages from their phones.

A police team in Almora visited the alleged guest

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