chennai a city court has declared venkata saravanan alias s a r prasanna venkatachariar chaturvedi swami a selfproclaimed godman a proclaimed offender in connection with a cheating case registered in 2004 in 2020 a mahila court declared saravanan a proclaimed offender in a 2004registered case in which he sexually abused a woman devotee and her two daughters after illegally detaining them for a few months a chargesheet was filed in both cases against saravanan and trial proceedings were on when he went absconding in 2016police said the members of the city crime branch ccb searched for the godman in places like varanasi before approaching the court concerned to get him declared a proclaimed offender a few nonbailable warrants issued against him earlier could not be executeda senior officer of the ccb which has issued a lookout circular loc against him said the godman had been spotted delivering religious discourses in varanasi and nearby areas and was also seen travelling to nepal since his disappearance in 2016 a police officer said he had been continuously changing his location and contact detailsin 2004 based on a complaint the ccb booked him under under 27 ipc sections apart from section 4 of the tamil nadu prohibition of harassment of women act 1998 against him inquiries showed he kidnapped the complainants daughter and wife and kept them in his custody for two years during which he sexually exploited them he also demanded and collected 15 lakh from the complainant for his sri ramanuja mission trust that functioned at his residence on ttk road in alwarpetthe ccb arrested chaturvedi swami and six others they were later granted bail in 2016 after a lengthy process the trial was moving towards a conclusion when the godman disappeared