Sarathi Baba or Srimad Sarathi Dev (born Santosh Raul) is a self proclaimed guru and actually a fraud from Odisha, India. On 4 August 2015, a TV channel (Prameya News7) ran a report, of him being a fraud. The channel claimed that he had stayed in a luxury hotel in Hyderabad with a young woman. The reported also included images of him wearing a T-shirt and jeans. This triggered wide-spread protests in the state. He was arrested on 8 August 2015.