India, June 3 -- A self-styled spiritual guru who claimed to offer religious guidance and personal mentorship has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district for allegedly drugging, sexually exploiting and blackmailing women, police said on Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Abhishek Mishra alias Adikarta Narayan Das, 29, was arrested from his ashram-like residence in Radha Kund on Monday. During the operation, police also rescued two young women and a man from the premises and handed them over to their families.

The case came to light after a 22-year-old BSc Nursing student from Chhattisgarh filed a complaint at the Govardhan police station on May 25.

According to the complaint, the woman had travelled to Mathura to visit her e...