Marking the first-ever judgement in a case under the state’s recently introduced anti-superstition law, the Vikhroli magistrate court yesterday acquitted a tantrik accused of cheating and harassing a 25-year-old woman.

The accused, a peon-turned-tantrik, was booked by the Crime Branch on April 9, 2014, which also made it the first case ever to be booked under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifices and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. The plaintiff’s husband and in-laws, who had also been booked under the Act, were acquitted by the court as well.