Swami Nityanand arrested in Himachal

SHIMLA - Self-styled godman Swami Nityanand, who has been linked to a sex scandal, was Wednesday arrested from a village 50 km from Shimla, police said.

“He was arrested from a house near Arki town,” Solan police chief Prem Thakur told IANS.

Video footage telecast in early March showed Nityanand in bed with two women. He denied any wrongdoing.