11 December,2010 06:53 AM IST | | Akela
Cops recover a dozen porn CDs and cash worth R3 lakh at another hideout
The Sex Baba case is getting murkier by the minute. During the tantrik's interrogation, the police discovered that he would watch pornographic movies before raping the girls.
The investigating officials have found 12 pornographic CDs and more than Rs 3 lakh in cash at his Null Bazaar hideout.
According to the police, Mehendi Kasam Jainul Abdin Shaikh, alias Bengali Baba, revealed that other than his Pydhonie, Bhindi Bazaar, Chunabhatti and Kalyan hideouts he also had another hideout in Null Bazaar.
The police revealed that when they raided the demonic Baba's house, they found 12 CDs there.
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Officials suspect that the Baba wouldu00a0 watch the movies before raping the girls. The police added that they found the Baba's passport, which claimed that he was a native of 24 Parganas District, West Bengal.
"We have recovered 12 CDs and more than Rs 3 lakh in cash," said KA Patil, senior inspector, JJ Marg police station.
Earlier, the police had recovered Rs 87 lakh in cash and diamond-studded jewellery from his hideout in Kalyan.
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The police had also recovered a white powdery substance from the flat that has been sent for forensic examination.
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>> IN 2000, Hasmukhbhai Rathod, a tantrik, had allegedly advised a couple in Mira Road that the family would prosper if the father were to have a sexual relationship with his elder daughter, who was then 12. The racket was exposed when the baba began to abuse the younger daughter.
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>> Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi alias Sex Baba was the mastermind behind an organised prostitution syndicate operating across India. He had gathered all the small town sex operators under one umbrella.u00a0 He was also running a website in the name of Jia Mehta and Delhi Escort Service. His operations were conducted from many cities right from Bangalore to Kolkata.
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>> Hazrat Ikram Ali, a baba from Baroda, told Rehana Katharia (33), a resident of Kandivli,that he was god. He then suggested that her daughter Sophiya (15) should have physical relations with him and Rehana's second husband Yusuf Katharia (51), who is a businessman in London. This would rid them of all their woes, he claimed.
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>> Chhotu Mandal (19) was advised by a tantrik that he should sacrifice a 5-year-old and drink her blood. This would rid him of all his woes and he would prosper. Mandal flung a 4-year-old girl from a moving train near Ghatkopar to do so and was nabbed by the passengers before he could escape.
Horror Tales
Mehendi Shaikh alias Bengali Baba persuaded a family in Colaba that he could heal their 11-year-old mentally challenged boy. Baba's solution to the handicap was something called a Bengali puja.
Baba wormed his way into the family's trust and they got him an apartment in Bhindi Bazar, paying the rent for him.
Baba allegedly called the mentally challenged boy's mother often and raped her. He had sex with the woman's sister and maid, and raped her two daughters, and four of their cousins, of whom three were minors.
