eighth rape case towards Ashok Kharat: Two extra FIRs towards bogus astrologer | Nashik News
NASHIK: People who stated they have been victimised by astrologer Ashok Kharat proceed to method the police with complaints. The Sarkarwada police registered two extra instances towards him between Friday night time and Saturday.One criticism alleged dishonest of Rs 2.6 lakh from a dealer in Newasa Phata, Ahilyanagar, whereas the opposite alleged repeated sexual assaults on a lady between Aug and Dec 2024. With these, a complete of 10 instances have been registered towards Kharat, of which eight are associated to rape, and two entails dishonest and extortion.The police stated a lady lodged a criticism stating she was sexually assaulted by Kharat on 4 events between Aug and Dec 2024. The complainant stated she received married in 2013 and a 12 months later, after giving start to her daughter, frictions broke out between the couple, and so they began dwelling individually. In 2022, on the insistence of a relative, the couple met Kharat on the Ishaneshwar Mahadev temple in Mirgaon, and on his recommendation, they began dwelling collectively once more.As per the criticism, the couple visited him once more in March 2024, when Kharat instructed them that their marriage was dealing with issues as a consequence of their start dates. He additionally suggested them on which crops to plant on their farm for progress. In Aug, after they went to satisfy him to debate their issues, the astrologer requested the husband to attend exterior. He allgedly gave the lady water to drink from a copper vessel, then gave her one other copper vessel and requested her to position it on her head whereas uttering mantras. The lady acknowledged that she started feeling lightheaded. At that time, the complainant stated, Kharat held her inappropriately, claiming he possessed divine powers and promising she would have a affluent future if she adopted his directions.Subsequently, the police stated, he raped the lady and threatened that he may use his divine powers to destroy her life if she spoke in regards to the assault. The complainant stated she stored mum regardless of Kharat raping her on 4 events as a result of she feared for her life and believed Kharat had the ability to affect her marriage, as she and her husband reunited after seven years solely due to him.Recently, upon studying of Kharat’s arrest in a rape case, she narrated the incidents to her husband, after which she lodged a criticism with the police.In the opposite case, police registered a dishonest criticism based mostly on a press release by a 39-year-old garment dealer from Newasa Phata in Ahilyanagar, who stated his enterprise was not doing effectively. On the recommendation of an acquaintance, he and his spouse met Kharat in Dec 2022 at his Canada Corner workplace within the metropolis. Kharat instructed the complainant’s spouse that he had divine powers and would supply particular stones, Pushkaraj and a diamond, for them to put on for progress. The couple gave him three gold rings they have been carrying and Rs 1 lakh in money for the stones. Per week later, they paid him one other Rs 1.62 lakh after they acquired the rings studded with the gems.However, there was no enchancment within the enterprise. On March 19, they discovered that Kharat was arrested in a rape case. When they received the stones checked, they found the market worth was solely Rs 5,000 and that he set them in rings fabricated from yellow metallic as an alternative of the gold rings they initially supplied.
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Meanwhile, Kharat, arrested on March 17 within the first rape case registered towards him, will likely be produced earlier than the court docket on Sunday on the finish of his police custody.
