Maharashtra: Two booked for planning to terminate woman's pregnancy through black magic

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The Palghar Police in Maharashtra have registered a case against two persons, including a housewife, for allegedly planning to terminate the pregnancy of a woman using black magic, according to the PTI.

The station house officer of Mandvi police station in Palghar said that the case has been registered under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice, Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, reported the PTI.

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The police said the accused housewife has a dispute with the woman, who is her husband's sister-in-law.

After she learnt about the woman's pregnancy, the accused housewife on Tuesday got in touch with a 'baba' to terminate it through black magic, the police said. She also allegedly paid him Rs 4,000 digitally to get the work done.

The accused housewife's husband overheard the conversation and approached the police, said an official. On his complaint, the police registered the case against the two but no arrests have been made, the official added.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, the body of a 23-year-old woman has been found in a river in Maharashtra's Palghar district, two days after she went missing, police told PTI on Tuesday.

The woman, identified as Pooja Dubey, went missing from Nalasopara area on August 11 following which her father lodged a complaint with Tulinj police, an official from Boisar police station told PTI.

The complaint stated the woman went to take classes at a coaching centre in the afternoon, but did not return home, the official told PTI.

On August 13, some villagers while fishing spotted the body floating in the Vaitarna river and alerted the police, he said.

The police sent the body for postmortem and registered a case of accidental death, the official said.
A probe was on into the case, the official told PTI.

(with PTI inputs)