Valuables worth Rs 30,000 stolen from house in Kolhapur

KOLHAPUR: Police have registered one more case under Maharashtra Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Act against a person for allegedly looting valuables worth Rs 30,000 from the complainant’s house.
Juna Rajwada Police have booked Saudagar Ramchandra Powar who is already in police custody for similar crime.
The complainant identified as 27-year-old Aditya Krishnath Raut is a resident of Shivaji Peth, Kolhapur.
According to a police officer attached with Juna Rajwada police station. , The accused introduced himself as Prasad Kulkarni, who is an expert in performing rituals that can make one rich. Aditya believed him and organised rituals as per his instructions. During the ritual, Saudagar asked Aditya to make two duplicate keys of the locker in the house and keep gold jewellery at one place in the house as part of the ritual.
“Äfter few days, Aditya found jewellery worth Rs 30,000 missing. He later found one of the keys of the locker missing,” the police officer said.
“During the interrogation of the case in which Saudagar had cheated Omkar Ajit Wadekar, Saudagar confessed of committing crime and looting valuables from Aditya’s house,” he said.
He has been booked under sections 454 and 380 of IPC including and section 3 of The Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013.