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‘Bhole Baba’ was arrested in 2000: The stamepede on Tuesday occured during a satsang hosted by a self-styled religious preacher Narayan Sakar Vishwa Hari. Back in 2000, he was arrested in Agra for claiming of “magical powers” and allegedly taking the body of a 16-year-old girl forcibly from her family saying he would bring her back to life. Our reporters Neetika Jha, Manisha Sahu delve deeper into how the former police constable is regarded as a “healer” by his followers.

Over more than two decades now, after leaving the Uttar Pradesh Police in the 1990s where he was Constable Suraj Pal from Kasganj, to become a self-styled religious preacher, he has gathered a considerable following — mostly low-income Dalit families, where the men are employed as labourers, masons, agricultural labourers, safai karmacharis, carpenters or carpet-sellers, many of whom were witness to his rising popularity.