On October 27 last year, senior journalist Vinod Verma was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from his residence Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad over extortion and blackmailing.
Purohit denied any link with professor Nirmala Devi, 46, of Devanga Arts College, who had claimed she knows the governor, who is the chancellor of the university.
This came in the wake of raids conducted at the Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya at Rohini in Delhi on Thursday, where women and girls were kept confined like "animals in a cage."
The police arrested the woman, Sarita Bharti, 37, under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act for running a prostitution racket, and rescued four women on December 4 from her house in Dandipada in Boisar