‘I have divine powers. If you don’t fulfill my demand, your husband will die…’ By giving this threat, he continued raping the self-proclaimed astrologer woman. He is a retired Merchant Navy officer, who later reportedly started doing astrology.
People know him as ‘Captain’. In her complaint to the police, a woman said that he continued sexually abusing her for about three years from before to after their marriage. Nashik Court has sent the accused named Ashok Kumar Kharat to police custody. Its dark deeds are shocking.
He trapped the woman in his trap and raped the woman several times for more than three years (from 2022 to December 2025). The woman went to 67-year-old Ashok for the first time in 2019. An acquaintance had taken him. Then she wanted guidance in finding a suitable husband for herself. Later, due to the spread of Corona epidemic, she did not go for some time. Her marriage was fixed in 2022, she contacted Ashok again.
Did the marriage break due to taking off the pedant?
This alleged astrologer gave him a pendant. Instructed that she would never take it off. However, he had to take it off while giving an exam. For some reason the marriage proposal broke down within a week. Due to this the woman believed the astrologer that her marriage broke because of removing the pendant.
Gave solution and body became numb…
She again went to the astrologer, who assured her that she had divine powers. You will have to complete some rituals only then the marriage will take place. The woman alleges that the astrologer gave her a solution which made her body numb. It was then that he raped her for the first time. Later he threatened that if she protested, she would never get married. The woman has said all these things in her complaint.
kept raping even after marriage
Police have said that even after the woman got married, Ashok kept making her dance to his tunes. This continued till December 2025. He had threatened the woman that if she did not have physical relations, her husband would die. Investigators said that some documents, a pistol and cartridges have been recovered from Ashok’s house in Mirgaon. Police have also said that 58 videos have been found in a pen drive of Ashok, out of which there are some objectionable clips.
The state government has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate this matter. His house and farmhouse have been searched.