'Tantrik' sent to 7 years in jail for raping woman

Jai Narain, 41, an occultist who was popularly known as Bhawani Baba, had raped the woman in May 2009 by locking her inside a jhuggi after making her smell some substance during a "ritual", the court concluded in its judgement.

"From evidence, prosecution has been able to prove cogently and firmly all links leading to unerring conclusion that on May 3, 2009 at about 3.00 PM accused Jai Narain, at a jhuggi in Delhi, wrongfully confined the prosecutrix by closing the jhuggi from inside and after hypnotising her committed rape upon her without her consent and also threatened to kill her and her son, if the incident is disclosed to anyone," said Additional Sessions Judge Mahesh Chander Gupta.

The victim and her minor child had told the court that a