Buldhana: Police on Wednesday said that a case has been registered against a man for assembling people at a spot on the Samruddhi Expressway, where a bus fire claimed 25 lives, and installing a ‘Mahamrutyunjay Yantra’ and reciting mantras to prevent accidents.
Hamid Dabholkar of the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, an anti-superstition group, had objected to it and demanded police action into the matter, a news agency reported.
Twenty-five people were charred to death after a private bus caught fire on the Samruddhi Expressway in Buldhana district on July 1.
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On July 23, Buldhana resident Nilesh Adhav gathered some people at the accident site at Pimpalkhuta in Sindkhedraja area of the expressway and installed a ‘Mahamrutyunjay Yantra’ and recited the ‘Mahamrutyunjay Japa’, as per the police.
Adhav claimed on social media that due to the ‘Mahamrutyunjay Yantra’, no accident will take place within a five-km stretch and misled the people, the police said.
The Buldhana police on Monday registered a case against Adhav under provisions of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013 and a probe was on into it.
