Kalasa: Mutilated body of missing person found in Bhadra river
Suspected to be washed away in flood water
Kalasa, October 04: The skeleton of Kantappa Poojary (85) who was missing for the last 60 days, was found on the Bhadra River bank here on Thursday.
Kantappa Poojary of Kalakkodu in Kalasa police station limits had gone to Kalasa town on August 4 at 5 pm. But he did not return to his home. Since then he was missing against which a case was also registered at Kalasa police station.
When Kantappa was missing, there was heavy rainfall in and around Kalasa town and Bhadra river was flowing in full spate. It was suspected that he might have washed away in the flood. Despite the search operation on the bank of the river, he was not found and later, the police and the family members stopped searching for him.
On Thursday, the locals smelt the foul smell at Kodi Betta on the river bank and informed the police, who summoned the family members of Kantappa and inspected. The family members confirmed that it was the body of Kantappa Poojary based on the cloths. After postmortem, the mutilated body was handed over to the family members. A case was registered at the Kalasa police station.
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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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