Plot to kill rationalist Prof Narendra Nayak?
Complaint lodged against stranger
Mangaluru, June 14: Mangaluru-based rationalist and Rationalists Association national president Prof Narendra Nayak lodged a complaint against hatching out a plot for the third time to kill him after the murder of rationalist Prof MM Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh.
Prof Nayak said that he has lodged the complaint following a suspicious movement of a stranger before his flat and previous incidents. On June 12, a stranger came to the flat where Prof Nayak is living and said he would require a labourer to his teacher. Suspecting his attitude and movement, when the flat watchman asked him, he fled the scene, it is said.
Speaking to Varthabharati, Prof Nayak said that the stranger came to his flat on Tuesday. Because of his suspicious attitude, flat watchman asked him. But he left the place without giving any answer. When this incident happened, he was in Tamil Nadu and he has reached Mangaluru on Thursday. Now, he has given a complaint against this incident to Urva police station, he said.
In last March and November, murder attempt was made against Prof Nayak and even he had received a threatening call. But the purpose of the stranger is not yet known. But he has given the complaint based on the previous attempts, he said.
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
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Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
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