Rajnandgaon, June 26 -- Police have arrested a self-styled yoga guru after recovering cannabis and other objectionable materials from his under-construction ashram in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, officials said on Thursday.

Acting on a tip-off about suspicious activities and the presence of anti-social elements at the ashram being built near Pragyagiri hill in Dongargarh, a police team conducted a raid and recovered around 2 kg of cannabis along with other objectionable materials, Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohit Garg said.

The accused, identified as Baba Kanti Agrawal, was arrested on Tuesday, June 24, the SP said.

SP Garg said that Agrawal had left Dongargarh nearly 20 years ago and has been running a yoga ashr...