Baba Ramdev's aide Balakrishna goes 'missing'

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev's aide Balakrishna has gone "missing" two days after CBI had filed a case against him for allegedly furnishing fake degree for acquiring a passport, police reported on Tuesday. Balakrishna's bodyguard Jayendra Singh Aswal lodged a missing persons report in Kankhal police station in Haridwar late last night. According to the report, Mr. Aswal reached Mr. Balakrishna's Divya Yog Ashram residence to pick him up to his office yesterday but Mr. Balakrishna asked him to leave saying he will come to office after some time by himself. However, Mr. Aswal waited till evening in the office but could not meet him. Later he came to Divya Yog Ashram so as to meet him but could not find him there also, thereafter he lodged a missing complaint with the police. The police team today reached Divya Yog Ashram and questioned its officials regarding Mr. Balakrishna's whereabouts. However, it was told that Balakrishna had gone for some 'urgent' work and he would soon return back to the ashram. Police also reported that the officials of the ashram had denied having any knowledge as to where Mr. Balakrishna had gone for work. The CBI has issued a look-out notice against Mr. Balakrishna after it registered a case against him under Section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) for procuring the fake degree and violations of Section 12 of the Indian Passport Act (knowingly furnishing false documents for getting passport). The agency had also approached the External Affairs Ministry seeking revocation of Mr. Balakrishna's passport. Meanwhile, Haridwar Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana said the police would investigate all the missing cases of Haridwar including that of Shankar Dev, Guru of Baba Ramdev. Shankar Dev had gone missing from the Haridwar ashram four years ago. Reported by      AR