Mumbai: In one other diabolical incident, a 27-year-old married lady from Saundana village in Beed, Maharashtra, was brutally raped, starved and her menstrual blood was bought for Rs 50,000 for some witchcraft rituals, officers mentioned right here on Friday. Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Manisha Kayande raised the difficulty within the Maharashtra Legislative Council and demanded strict punishment for the perpetrators of the crime, which paradoxically got here to gentle on the eve of International Women`s Day on Tuesday. She mentioned that following the intervention of the girl`s maternal household, the Vishrantwadi police station in Pune has lodged an FIR towards even accused individuals, together with the sufferer`s husband and his dad and mom.Â
“The victim woman has stated in her complaint that she was starved for three days during her monthly periods and her menstrual blood was collected and sold to someone for Rs 50,000 for some black magic purposes,” Kayande mentioned.
The lady added that since her love marriage round 2019, her husband and in-laws had been torturing her on varied grounds although the precise causes – whether or not dowry calls for or others – weren’t obtainable.
She mentioned that just lately her in-laws had tied her up throughout her month-to-month durations, collected her menstrual blood utilizing cotton swabs and bought it for Rs 50,000 to some one who indulges in working towards witchcraft.
The Pune police have booked all of the accused underneath the stringent Maharashtra Black Magic Act and different legal guidelines and additional probe is on.
BJP`s Pune Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil expressed shock over the incident and directed the police to invoke the strictest legal guidelines towards all of the accused individuals.
“Many times, in rural or even urban areas, such inhumane customs and barbaric practices are followed along with black magic. I demand that firm action should be taken against the accused under the relevant sections of law and a search should be carried out to catch those indulging in such abhorrent practices,” Kayande mentioned.
This is the second such shocker emanating from Pune up to now two months. In January, a 28-year-old lady was forcibly made to bear weird rituals in a crematorium.
The sufferer had knowledgeable the Sinhgad Police that she was made to take tub within the crematorium after which compelled to drink a liquid laced with powdered human bones and ashes as a part of sure rites allegedly supposed to allow her conception.
The Sinhgad police had swooped in to nab the girl’s husband, his dad and mom, his brother and three others for the heinous crime, whereas the President of Maharashtra State Commission for Women, Rupali Chakankar, had sought a probe report from the police.
