India, Sept. 30 -- A man linked to Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati -- the 62-year-old former chairman of a management institute in Delhi's Vasant Kunj, accused of molesting 17 female students -- has been booked for threatening one of the victims and demanding that she withdraw her complaint, police said on Monday.

According to investigators, the girl's father received a call from an unknown number on September 14. The caller allegedly warned that the family would "face dire consequences" unless they withdrew the case.

"The caller said the baba is angry that she has filed a case and threatened her father to withdraw the complaint immediately. The family got scared and approached us," said deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Amit Goe...