Overview
- The court order granted Sunday extended police custody to April 1 to let the SIT analyse cloned phone data, decode coded contacts and test links to accomplices.
- The SIT detained his son for questioning and is searching for his wife, who is also named in a separate land‑fraud case registered in Shirdi.
- Prosecutors told the court the accused gave women salty or bitter water or sweets that left them dizzy, and investigators are testing what substance was used.
- Police have registered 10 FIRs and logged more than 100 helpline complaints, with most cases alleging sexual exploitation tied to paid rituals.
- Explicit videos tied to the case are spreading on social and messaging apps, traumatising families as police file cases and push takedowns that are hard to enforce on WhatsApp and Telegram.