Pontiff under house arrest

Hyderabad | Tuesday | 10th July, 2018

Summary:

Swami Paripoornananda being placed under house arrest by the Hyderabad police on Monday. A senior official said that as per the request of the pontiff, he was taken to a temple, and the house arrest would be lifted only if he withdrew his call for the yatra. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangementmore-inThe Hyderabad city police on Monday placed pontiff Swami Paripoornananda Saraswati under house-arrest at the house of one of his followers in Jubilee Hills. Tension prevailed outside the house of Swami Paripoornananda’s devotee when a man threatened to commit suicide if the police did not lift the house-arrest. The arrest was made by Jubilee Hills police hours before he was scheduled to take out a rally named Dharmika Chaitanya Yatra from the city to the temple town of Yadadri..