A guard working in a 5 star hotel became the kingpin of a sex racket, the story of Ichhadhari Baba Bhimanand

New Delhi : I have searched every door, I kept doing whatever I wanted. Sai, you have held me tight… my place is in Sai’s feet. The person singing this bhajan is Ichhadhari Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj of Chitrakootwale. his/her open hair is decorated with marigold petals, while high profile devotees of Baba are playing cymbals in his/her support. After the death of 121 people in the stampede in Hathras, UP, with the name of Surajpal alias Narayan Hari Sarkar ‘Bhole Baba’ coming up, the discussion about controversial babas in the country has also intensified. One name among the controversial babas is also of Bhimanand alias Shivmurti Dwivedi, famous as Ichhadhari Baba, resident of Chitrakoot.

From guard to sex racket kingpin

A man who was once a security guard in a five star hotel in Delhi traveled the journey to become a millionaire. The story of Dwivedi becoming a Baba and then going to jail is recorded in the Delhi and NCR police records. Bhimanand has a daughter who has studied from Maharashtra. his/her wife Munni Devi lived in Chitrakoot itself. he/she came to Delhi in 1988 and took up the job of a security guard in Hotel Park Royal. Soon he/she started living in a five star hotel in Agra. But he/she was an ambitious person. he/she started working as a manager in a massage parlor in Lajpat Nagar area of ​​​​South Delhi. Here he/she met a person with the surname Dwivedi. This friend, who was a devotee of Sai Baba of Shirdi. he/she brought Bhimanand in contact with other swamis and saints. After this, Bhimanand started going to different places and conducting satsang. he/she started making money in the guise of solving people’s problems, getting them married and getting them jobs. Later on, he/she became a big kingpin of a sex racket.

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How many forms of Ichhadhari Baba

Like the gods of yore, his/her presence too would take on different forms depending on the need and situation. To his/her fellow Sai devotees, he/she was Swami Bhimanand. A holy man beyond doubt. To his/her girlfriends, he/she was simply Shiv Murat Dwivedi. To his/her victims and clients, he/she was Shiv Murti, a man who was involved in prostitution, robberies, attempted murders and was in and out of jails for being a pimp. All this was done in the name of Sai Baba. According to the police, he/she would answer all his/her phone calls by saying ‘Om Shri Sai’ instead of the usual ‘Hello’. he/she would listen to the caller’s voice and then decide who was being sought – the pimp Shiv Murti or the Sai devotee Swami Bhimanand.

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he/she was arrested for the first time in 1997

Dwivedi was first arrested in 1997. The next arrest came soon after. he/she was arrested in 1998 in Badarpur for receiving stolen goods and robbery. After coming under the radar of the police in Delhi, he/she started his/her work in Noida. By then, he/she had built a temple in Khanpur. he/she had changed his/her name from Shiv Murat Dwivedi to Ichhadhari Swami Bhimanand. In 2003, the Noida police laid a trap (similar to the one laid by the Delhi police on February 25) by sending two fake customers to deal with Dwivedi. They arrested the fake baba, his/her pimp and six sex workers. The racket was being run from two government flats in South Delhi—one in RK Puram and the other in Mohammadpur belonging to Public Works gardener Ram Narayan. Bhimanand had rented out the flat. All this was happening when over one lakh gullible followers could see nothing beyond his/her holy garb.
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500 girls were involved in the racket

Police say that Shiva Murthy ran his/her operation like a business. he/she did not rely on anyone other than one or two people for logistics. he/she would often take his/her sex workers to the pick-up point himself. he/she would also take all the bookings himself. he/she would maintain a diary of his/her holidays and was meticulous with his/her accounts. he/she had more than 50 girls working directly for him/her. he/she had numbers of more than 500 girls. Obviously, the money was good.

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Assets worth more than 60 crores

Ichhadhari Baba’s total assets are estimated to be around Rs 60 crore. Apart from his/her family property, he/she has a temple and ashram in Khanpur and three other properties in Delhi. Apart from this, he/she also has property in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh. There he/she was building a 200-bed hospital.