Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- A day after a Ludhiana resident ended his life by setting himself on fire inside a public washroom on the premises of City-1 police station in Khanna, police on Tuesday arrested a self-styled godman and his three associates on charges of abetment to suicide.

The accused - Charan Das, who operates from Lalheri Road in Khanna, and his associates Makhan Singh, Jugraj Singh and Inderpreet Singh - were produced before a court on Tuesday, which remanded them to one-day police custody.

According to Khanna SSP Darpan Ahluwalia, the deceased, a resident of Ishar Nagar in Ludhiana, had visited the police station on Monday to lodge a fresh complaint alleging that the accused had duped him of Rs.73,000 on the pretext of performi...