Black Magic Law Invoked Against 2 Arrested For 9 Murders In Maharashtra
NDTV
Maharashtra murders: Police initially suspected that the deaths were due to a mass suicide pact before detailed investigations led to the arrests, an official said.
Maharashtra police on Saturday added sections of an anti black magic and superstition law against two persons, including a mantrik, accused of killing nine members of the family of two brothers in Sangli district, an official said on Saturday.
The bodies were found in two homes belonging to siblings Manik Vanmore and Popat Vanmore on June 20 in Mhaishal in Miraj, over 380 kms from Mumbai.
The police has invoked sections of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act 2013 against accused mantrik Abbas Mohammad Ali Bagwan and his associate Dheeraj Surawase, both residents of Solapur, he said.
As suicide notes were found at the two sites, police had initially suspected it was a mass suicide pact due to harassment by money-lenders before detailed investigations led to the arrest of Bagwan and Surawase, the official said.
