Mohanan Vaidyar dead

Thiruvananthapuram: Controversial naturopath Mohanan Nair, popularly known as Mohanan Vaidyar, 65, died here on Saturday. According to sources, Vaidyar was staying in a residence at Thalyil near Karamana for the past few days. He complained of uneasiness and stomach ache at night and collapsed. He was immediately taken to Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College at 9:20pm. But the doctors declared him dead on arrival.Following this, the police was also alerted.
Karamana police said that the residents of Thalyil house claimed to be his relatives. Vaidyar had courted controversies often with his stance against modern medicine. Last year, when the Covid-19 cases were starting to get reported in the state, he was arrested by Thrissur police for spreading misinformation as he claimed that he could cure Covid.
He was also booked by Alappuzha police two years ago for allegedly causing death of an 18-year-old woman, who was under his treatment. tnn