A symbol to ward off the evil eye frowns down at passersby from the first floor of a newly constructed, four-storey building in Faridabad’s Sector 31 in Haryana. It’s Monday and the street is empty, except for a few cars.
The reason for this silence lies over 1,600 km away, with the arrest of a priest in Telangana last week. The priest, Satish Sharma, moved into this building just three or four months ago, paying a sum of Rs 1.25 crore for the first-floor flat and registering it in the names of his wife and mother-in-law.
