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Maharashtra: Women tell senior citizen about ghosts in Thane home, cheat him of Rs 15.87 lakh for 'rituals'

Updated on: 15 September,2022 09:22 PM IST  |  Thane
mid-day online correspondent | Compiled by: Asif Rizvi | asif.ali@mid-day.com

The women told the man, a Thane resident who was living in alone, that evil spirits had invaded his house and suggested certain rituals, a Manpada police station official said

Maharashtra: Women tell senior citizen about ghosts in Thane home, cheat him of Rs 15.87 lakh for 'rituals'

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The Thane Police have booked two women for allegedly cheating a 79-year-old man of Rs 15.87 lakh in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Thursday, as per the PTI.


The women told the man, a Thane resident who was living in alone, that evil spirits had invaded his house and suggested certain rituals, the Manpada police station official said.


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"They made him shell out Rs 15.87 lakh for the rituals between July and September this year. After he approached police, the two have been charged under Indian Penal Code and Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013," he said.

The case was registered on Tuesday but no arrest has been made as yet, the official added.

(with PTI inputs)

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