The Indore based guru, had allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. He shot himself at his home.
"He shot himself on his right temple in a room bolted from inside. His body was brought out by breaking the door of the room and taken to hospital, where he was declared 'brought dead'," PTI quoted a police officer as saying.”
A notepad was found in his room on which he had purportedly written, 'Somebody should be there to handle duties of family, I am leaving, too much stressed out, fed up'.
The family members of the spiritual guru claimed that this was his own handwriting but the police will verify this through experts, police officer said.
A large number of his supporters gathered in front of the hospital where the 50-year-old 'godman' was rushed after the shooting incident.
The 50-year-old model-turned-spiritual guru had had a huge follower base among politicians, many of them from Maharashtra.
Bhayyu Maharaj was one of the five 'saints' to whom the Shivraj Singh government of Madhya Pradesh had granted Minister of State (MoS) rank in April. However, he had refused to accept it, saying "a post holds no importance for a saint".