Haryana Police on Wednesday arrested two persons, including a ‘tantrik’ and former chairman of a panchayat samiti, and his helper, on the charges of raping a 19-year-old woman who had been taken to him for treatment in Gurgaon.
A spokesman of the Police Department said the ‘tantrik’ would send out word that he had occult powers to treat certain types of diseases, draw women by giving them false hope, violate them and later cheat members of their families.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim on July 31, a resident of area under the Sadar Gurgaon police station, the parents of the women took her to the accused ‘tantrik’ in Sohna, who violated her several times on the pretext of curing her of the disease she was suffering from. He also demanded from her father Rs 5,000 per visit.
After a case was registered for rape and cheating, a police team conducted a raid at the place where the accused used to practice in Sohna and arrested the ‘tantrik’ Deen Mohammad alias Deenu and his assistant Daraab Khan.
The interrogation revealed that the accused ‘tantrik’ is 65-year-old, has three wives and 10 children. He remained chairman of a panchayat samiti in 2002. The accused were produced in the court and remanded to judicial custody in Bhondsi jail.