Nagpur: Dharmendra Ninawe, alias Tulewale, was arrested by Pardi police for allegedly raping four members of a family, including a 17-year-old minor, after promising to drive away an ‘evil spirit’ from their residence.
Ninawe raped the minor for five months at a stretch at his residence too. He was also demanding Rs1 lakh from the family.
It’s learnt Ninawe and the father of the minor victim were friends. Ninawe had visited the house of the minor in May last year. He had pronounced the place spooky, saying a bad spirit was residing there. Ninawe had also said the minor was possessed by a spirit, which needs to be driven away with a 21-day ritual.
On the pretext of driving away the spirit, Ninawe had taken the minor with him to a desolate place and forcefully established physical relations with her. After some time, Ninawe had trapped the minor’s mother, maternal grandmother and maternal aunt too.
On the pretext of performing rituals, Ninawe had taken the women in turns with him to different places like Chandrapur and Dongargaon, where he forced himself upon them.
When Ninawe, who is married with a grown up son, started harassing the family with demands of money and kept urging the women to come along with him, they approached the cops with a complaint.