Police today arrested four persons, including one builder from Surat, in connection with the sex scandal case involving Swaminarayan priests of the Vadtal sect, police sources said here today.
Crime branch officials arrested the four persons, three from Surat and one man from Saila town of Surendranagar district, after they were summoned for interrogation yesterday, an official told PTI.
With this, the police have arrested eight persons including, a swami Bhatiswarup who belonged to the Junagadh temple of the Vadtal sect, who was one of the priests caught on camera indulging in explicit acts with women, officials added.
Police said the builder, the two followers and the fourth from Saila were arrested for financing the entire sex CD operation which was an outcome of rivalry between two groups in the Vadtal sect that were gunning for the control of the temple management.
Officials claimed interrogation of Bhaktiswarup, who was one of the sadhus in one of the CDs, and the three agents who had made the CDs had revealed the links of the builders and the other person for financing the operation.