Mangaluru : Sri Krishna Deviprasad Teertha Swamiji, was found dead in his ashram in Bajpe police station limits on Friday.

Based on the complaint of Swamiji’s wife, Bajpe police have registered a case of unnatural death and sent the body for post-mortem.

Sri Krishna Deviprasad Teertha Swamiji was a hotelier in Mumbai. He had renounced all worldly pleasures in order to lead a life of an ascetic in the ashram he had built in Talakala near Bajpe.

According to police sources, Swamiji’s mother and wife stayed in a house built close to the ashram. Their only daughter was staying in a foreign country, sources added.

A case has been registered at the Bajpe police station.