Bombay: In one other diabolical incident, a 27-year-old married girl from Saundana village in Beed, Maharashtra, was brutally raped, starved and her menstrual blood was offered for Rs 50,000 for some witchcraft rituals, officers stated right here Friday. Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Manisha Kayande has raised the difficulty within the Maharashtra Legislative Council and demanded harsh punishments for the perpetrators of the crime, which satirically got here to mild on the eve of International Women’s Day on Tuesday. She stated that following the intervention of the girl’s maternal household, Vishrantwadi Police Station in Pune filed an FIR towards even accused individuals together with the sufferer’s husband and fogeys.
“The female victim said in her complaint that she was starved for three days during her monthly period and her menstrual blood was collected and sold to someone for 50,000 rupees for black magic purposes,” stated Kayanda.
The girl added that since her love marriage round 2019, her husband and his in-laws had tortured her for varied causes, though the precise causes – whether or not dowry calls for or in any other case – are unclear. weren’t accessible.
She stated that lately her in-laws tied her up throughout her month-to-month interval, collected her menstrual blood utilizing cotton swabs and offered it for Rs 50,000 to an individual who engaged in witchcraft.
Pune Police have booked all of the accused underneath Maharashtra’s strict black magic legislation and different legal guidelines and additional investigation is ongoing.
BJP’s Pune Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil expressed shock on the incident and ordered the police to invoke the strictest legal guidelines towards all defendants.
“Often, in rural and even city areas, such inhuman customs and barbaric practices are adopted by black magic. I demand that agency motion be taken towards the accused underneath the related articles of legislation and {that a} search be carried out to catch those that interact in these heinous practices,” Kayande stated.
This is the second such shock to come back out of Pune up to now two months. In January, a 28-year-old girl was pressured to endure weird rituals at a crematorium.
The sufferer had knowledgeable the Sinhgad police that she had been pressured to take a shower within the crematorium after which pressured to drink a liquid blended with powdered human bones and ashes as a part of sure rites supposed to permit her conception .
Sinhgad Police had intervened to arrest the girl’s husband, dad and mom, brother and three others for the heinous crime, whereas Maharashtra State Commission for Women Chairperson Rupali Chakankar demanded a investigation report back to the police.
