AGRA, June 2 -- A 29-year-old IIT-Roorkee graduate-turned-godman was arrested on Monday on charges of sexual exploitation after a 22-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh, who was allegedly one of his disciples, lodged an FIR at Goverdhan police station in Mathura, police said on Tuesday.

The accused, originally from Odisha, allegedly targeted educated youths while residing at Radha Kund in Mathura, they added.

"The arrested accused, Abhishek Mishra, 29, of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, had renamed himself Aadikarta Narain Dass. He graduated from IIT-Roorkee in 2021 (2017-2021 batch) but later became a self-styled godman and shifted to Radha Kund in the Goverdhan area of Mathura about three years ago," Mathura (rural) superintendent of police Suresh ...