BHUBANESWAR: The enforcement directorate on Thursday attached properties to the tune of Rs 14.95 crore of astrologer Surendra Mishra, aka Sura Baba and his Trahi Achyuta Ashram on the city outskirts. Sura Baba and his two sons Trilochan and Biranchi were arrested by the commissionerate police on August 31, 2015 for allegedly assaulting a lower caste man and cheating people by claiming himself as a god-man. "We were probing the financial irregularity into the case. The attached assets included Rs 2.35 crore bank balance in names of Sura Baba and his two sons and the Ashram property worth nearly Rs 14.95 crore," said an ED officer. Trahi Achyuta Nagar, popularly known as Trahi Achyuta Ashram near Balianta once epitomized a classic beauty, standing unparalleled anywhere in the state. Set up in 1983 at Jhinti village, nearly 30 km from the state capital, the Ashram has a well planned residential colony, temples, sprawling water body, toy train, dispensary, nationalized bank, post office, clean and spacious roads and vast patches of green fields, spread over 20 acre. The tranquil and picturesque ambience stood shattered on August 30, 2015 when some local residents went on a rampage in the Ashram branding Sura Baba a fraud. The government recently pulled down portions of the Ashram saying the constructions came up illegally on government land.

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