Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri claimed in his suicide note that he was being blackmailed by his disciple Anand Giri. The suicide note recovered by Prayagraj Police names Anand Giri as one of the accused pushing him to the extent of dying by suicide. The note, now accessed by India Today, shows that it was written on the letterhead of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad.