New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Police arrested a 62-year-old former chairman of a management institute in Delhi's Vasant Kunj from a hotel in Agra in the early hours of Sunday, roughly two months after he was first booked for allegedly molesting 17 female students and a week after the heinous charges were made public. The accused, Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, is named as an accused in at least five criminal cases - of which two were lodged in 2009 and 2016 and three this year - for alleged mass molestation, cheating his employers and using forged diplomatic number plates on high-end cars. He was produced before judicial magistrate Ravi of Patiala House Court on Sunday afternoon and sent to police custody for five days. The order was yet to be made public. In its application, police said they need to collect electronic evidence and footage, which requires Saraswati's custody. The application also said that Swami needs to be confronted with the victims' statements to corroborate the allegations. Saraswati is a self-proclaimed monk who posed as a United Nations dignitary and a member of Brics, said the police. He has evaded arrest since August 5, when a first information report under sections 75(2), 79 and 351 (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was lodged on the complaint of the students of the Shri Sharada Institute of Indian Management, Vasant Kunj. "At the time of the FIR, he was in London for some work. When he returned, he found out about the case and fled from the city. He hails from Odisha but was not found there as well," said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity. During the investigation, police said raids were conducted in Delhi, Haryana, UP, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Agra Commissioner of Police Deepak Kumar said it was a Delhi Police operation and the Agra police helped them trace the exact location of the accused. "Delhi Police took the accused in custody from a hotel under Tajganj police station limits at around 3am," he added. The matter came to light after an Air Force officer, a group captain at the Directorate of Education, Air Headquarters, received an email some time in July from present and former students at the institute, stating that they were sexually harassed, tortured and molested by the chairman. The students wrote to the air force officer as she is the director of the Directorate of Education at the IAF headquarters and many of the complainants are children of military officials....