Overview
- Police in Navi Mumbai traced and arrested two self-styled godmen in Ghoti, Nashik district, using technical surveillance.
- The accused, identified as Arjun Bharat and Sagar Shivaji Shinde, allegedly cheated a Seawoods resident of about Rs 1.9 lakh.
- Officers say the men claimed the woman faced negative energy and staged rituals with lemons, ash, and threads to extract repeated payments.
- The woman filed a complaint in late April after seeing reports on a similar Nashik case involving fake godman Ashok Kharat.
- The case is registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Maharashtra's anti-superstition law, and police have urged residents to report similar scams.