Fake degrees and passports: Here is the real story of Acharya Balakrishna, Ramdev's close aide and Patanjali CEO

Balakrishna went into hiding when his passport came under scanner. However, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) arrested him in 2012. The CBI claimed that Balakrishna’s passport was issued based on forged high school and graduation certificates and that he owned a pistol without a legal permit.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a case against Balakrishna over money laundering charges. But, they were later were dropped after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power in 2014. He was later given a clean chit.

Balakrishna’s Patanjali had donated a whopping amount of Rs 11,00,000 in 2009 to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), before 2009 general elections as donation.