ashok kharat

Mumbai, March 26 – NCP tribal leader and Maharashtra Minister for Food and Drug Administration, Narhari Zirwal, is in a difficult position after an allegedly obscene video of him with a transgender person has gone viral on social media. It is not just Zirwal, but the NCP led by Sunetra Pawar...

Nashik, March 26 Police have filed a fresh case against arrested self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat after a Pune-based businessman accused him of cheating him out of Rs 6 crore by promising to help him start a logistics business abroad, officials said on Thursday.The complainant alleged that...

Mumbai, March 26 According to official documents, the Maharashtra government had sanctioned over Rs 1 crore for development works at a temple linked to the arrested self-proclaimed godman and rape accused, Ashok Kharat, in the Nashik district in 2018.The funds were approved on March 31, 2018...

Mumbai, March 25 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ridiculed claims made by alleged con artists, including self-proclaimed astrologer Ashok Kharat, on Wednesday, saying that if black magic actually worked, the world would look very different."If problems could truly be solved...

Mumbai, March 25 Jitendra Awhad, an MLA from the NCP (SP), made serious allegations in the Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday, claiming that certain leaders of the ruling party were attempting to undermine Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis using Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed religious figure...

Mumbai, March 24 Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal has criticized Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde over the election of the Satara Zilla Parishad president, saying that the BJP no longer needs him or his party, the Shiv Sena.In a Facebook post on Monday, Sapkal said that...

Mumbai, March 24 – Congress Legislative Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar launched a fierce attack on the MahaYuti government during last week's motion debate, citing the breakdown of law and order, rising violence against women, the drug menace, and the spread of superstition.He expressed his...

Mumbai, March 24 Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde engaged in a verbal sparring match in the legislative council on Tuesday, as Thackeray was bidding farewell after completing his term.Besides Thackeray, the council also bid farewell to...

Mumbai, March 24 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assured the State Assembly on Tuesday that "no one, regardless of their status or political affiliation, will be spared" in the investigation involving self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat.The Chief Minister said this includes...

Mumbai, March 24 Eight FIRs have been registered by the police against self-proclaimed religious figure Ashok Kharat after receiving multiple complaints involving allegations of sexual assault, extortion, and the circulation of objectionable material, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis...

Nashik (Maharashtra), March 24 A court in Nashik on Tuesday extended the police custody of self-proclaimed spiritual leader Ashok Kharat, who was arrested in a rape case, until March 29.A man attempted to attack Kharat outside the court, but the police stopped him in time and took him into...

Buldhana, March 24 – The chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, Harshwardhan Sapkal, said on Tuesday that the disturbing discourse sparked by the case of the fraudulent self-proclaimed godman, Ashok Kharat, is not good for Maharashtra. He demanded additional support for the Special...

Mumbai, March 24 The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating cases against self-proclaimed godman and rape accused Ashok Kharat has uncovered assets worth Rs 1,500 crore and 100 objectionable videos, a senior police official said on Tuesday.With the discovery expanding the scope of the...

Mumbai, March 24 The number of unfulfilled government assurances in Maharashtra has crossed 5,200, with the legislative Committee on Government Assurances raising concerns over delays and the absence of officials in review meetings on Tuesday.Committee chairman Ravi Rana said in the state...

Mumbai, March 24 Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday claimed that law and order had deteriorated in Maharashtra, citing a case of six minor girls going missing in the Chandrapur district.Raising the issue in the state assembly through an adjournment motion, he...

Mumbai, March 24 – The resignation of Maharashtra NCP women's wing chief Rupali Chakankar as chairperson of the State Women's Commission due to allegations of her close ties to self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat is the latest in a long list of party leaders who faced accusations and either...

Mumbai, March 23 Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray said on Monday that if women are being exploited in the name of divine powers and with the blessings of those in power, then this is the most serious issue. This statement came after the arrest of a self-proclaimed godman for...

Mumbai, March 23 Senior Congress MLA in Maharashtra, Vijay Wadettiwar, demanded HIV tests for all individuals who came into contact with Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed religious leader from Nashik, who has been arrested on charges of rape.Speaking in the assembly, the leader of the Congress...

Mumbai, March 23 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Monday targeted the rival Shiv Sena over the "misconduct" of minister Shamburaj Desai during the election of Satara Zilla Parishad president last week and said the incident has shown the Eknath Shinde-led party its place in the...

Nashik, March 23 Two more cases have been registered in Maharashtra's Nashik district against self-proclaimed religious leader Ashok Kharat, who was arrested on March 18 after a woman accused him of repeated rape over a period of three years, a police official said on Monday.The new cases are...