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Tantrik held in Telangana in triple homicide, robbery case
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Jaipur: Bikaner police Wednesday arrested a self-proclaimed tantrik in Telangana, on the run after allegedly killing three men in Bikaner's Khajuwala area by lacing the 'prasad' with poison during a black magic ritual.
Two of his accomplices were also caught from different locations in Uttar Pradesh. The tantrik, who was taken into custody is being brought to Bikaner.
The accused, M Shiva, went to Khajuwala claiming he could double people's money using occult rituals. On June 12, during a ritual held at the home of one Ghaffar Khan, Shiva served a halwa laced with poison as part of the ceremony. The incident led to the deaths of Ghaffar Khan, Shaitan Singh, and Vikram Singh.
Shaitan and Vikram were allegedly members of the same group that plotted the fraud.
The day after the incident, Ghaffar Khan's family realised they were cheated. They beat Shiva, took Rs 50 lakh from him, and threw him out of the house. Police later recovered the money and tracked Shiva to Nizamabad in Telangana with the help of local police. His accomplices — Dharmendra from Azamgarh and Jitendra Tiwari from Gorakhpur — were located and arrested in Uttar Pradesh.
According to police, the group was part of a network of conmen who promised to double money through black magic. Shiva had links with Manoj Verma from Jharkhand, who was connected to Dharmendra and Jitendra. Another member, Ramswaroop from Jodhpur, was in contact with Shaitan Singh from Ajmer. Shaitan was known to Ghaffar Khan, who lived in Khajuwala. Together, they planned to cheat victims of Rs one crore by including Vikram Singh from Ajmer in their scheme.
On June 6, Shiva and his driver reached Ajmer, while the others came separately. Shiva later visited Jaipur, and the entire group assembled in Khajuwala by June 10.
Police have arrested three other people in the case — Ramswaroop from Jodhpur, Ghaffar Khan's son-in-law Mustaq, and his nephew Yusuf. Mustaq remains in police remand till June 19. Ramswaroop and Yusuf were presented in court Wednesday and sent to four-day police remand.
