‘Phone call may help solve MP suicide case’

Bhopal: Police investigating the sensational suicide death of self-style god man Bhaiyyuji Maharaj in Indore in Madhya Pradesh on June 12 has started digging out details of a particular phone call made to him a day before his tragic end.

A senior police officer in Indore district disclosed this newspaper on Saturday that the model-turned-spiritual leader got seriously upset after receiving the call.

“We are investigating if the particular phone call was the trigger for his taking the extreme step”, the police officer said. According to him, the 49-year-old “sadhu” had received the phone when he was on his way to Pune from Indore in his car apparently to pick his daughter, studying there, on June 11.

“He was visibly upset after receiving the call and suspended his journey to Pune and returned to Indore.

Later on the same day, he met a woman in a local restaurant.

Both of them did not take anything in the restaurant and had left the place in their cars separately after the meeting that lasted more than half-an-hour”, the police officer said.

The police, meanwhile, located the woman and took her statement. “So far, we find her statement no interest to us in our investigation in the case. But, we may take her statement again when probe progresses”, the police officer said.

“We have no doubt that it was a case of suicide. But, we are yet to lay our hand on concrete evidence to establish the cause of his suicide”, he added.

Sources said the “god man” was perturbed over family discord caused by souring relations between his second wife Ayush Sharma and his daughter from first wife.

His first wife died in 2015 and he married for second time last year. His daughter could not accept his second wife leading to the strained relations between the two women.

In another development, police took statement of his daughter on Saturday.