Nashik Astrolger Rape Case: seventh rape case in opposition to astrologer Ashok Kharat: Woman accuses him of sexual exploitation on promise of a brilliant profession | Nashik News
NASHIK: The Sarkarwada police on Tuesday night time registered yet another case of rape in opposition to astrologer Ashok Kharat primarily based on a grievance by a 24-year-old lady _ taking the variety of such circumstances to seven after the primary case was registered on March 17. Kharat is in police custody until March 29 in relation to the primary case.The complainant within the newest case has accused Kharat of giving her water laced with sedative, on the pretext of performing some rituals, and raping her on 4 events between July and Dec 2024 in his workplace at Canada Corner after she and her dad and mom had approached him to seek the advice of on deciding on increased schooling and profession choices.The complainant advised police that she couldn’t muster braveness to reveal the incident to her dad and mom as Kharat pressured her into submission by threatening to make use of his ‘divine powers’ to destroy her and her members of the family’ lives and make sure the demise of her father. It was solely after she and her household learnt about Kharat’s arrest that she narrated her woes to her dad and mom and so they determined to method the police to lodge a grievance, she advised police.The complainant acknowledged that she and her dad and mom got here to learn about Kharat throughout their go to to a temple, based by him at Mirgaon in Sinnar tehsil of Nashik district. The household learnt about Kharat’s religious powers and plenty of believers typically go to him to hunt options to issues like illnesses, finance, schooling, job and profession, amongst different issues.The FIR acknowledged that in Feb 2021 she and her household first met Kharat to seek the advice of him a few home they wished to construct on their farmland. Kharat then suggested them in opposition to setting up the home for the subsequent two to 3 years, claiming that the land was cursed and requested them to fulfill him later. The household then began visiting him on subsequent events.The FIR acknowledged that in July 2024, when the complainant and her household visited Kharat for recommendation on her increased schooling, the astrologer requested her dad and mom to attend exterior. He then supplied her a sedative-laced concoction within the identify of performing some rituals and went on to rape her, the complainant advised police. The survivor acknowledged that she was subjected to repeated sexual assault until Dec 2024 and she or he stored struggling and didn’t disclose the abuse to her dad and mom because of concern for her father’s life.The complainant alleged that in Dec 2025, she obtained a video clip from an unidentified cellphone quantity displaying her and Kharat in a compromising place. When her household confronted Kharat, he dismissed the clip as an AI-generated video and requested them to register a grievance with the Shirdi police. A case was initially registered with the Shirdi police beneath the IT Act and different sections of the BNS, however Kharat threatened her in opposition to talking out and she or he did inform something about him to the Shirdi police, the FIR acknowledged.
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Nashik police arrested Kharat on March 17 primarily based on a grievance by a girl that he repeatedly raped her between Nov 2022 and Dec 2025 on the pretext of utilizing his religious powers and conducting non secular rituals to treatment her of some curse. The lady alleged that he additionally threatened her in opposition to disclosing her woes to any individual.The state govt arrange a particular investigation workforce (SIT) beneath senior IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute as extra complaints of rape, black magic and ‘aghori’ practices by Kharat got here to the fore and the problem took a political flip because of his connections with a number of political leaders.
