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Conviction Hindu and Hindu-derived contexts Odisha, India · 2019

India: 'Tarini Baba', a tantrik, convicted of abducting, raping and trafficking a girl whose family trusted his rituals

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled tantrik and spiritual practitioner trusted by the victim's family

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The tantrik's ritual authority over the household is what opened the door: the family trusted him as a spiritual guide, and that trust delivered their daughter into his control.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Ritual, oath, or initiation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-01-01 · conviction; upheld on appeal

    Odisha trial court; Orissa High Court (Jail Criminal Appeal No. 60 of 2019). Madhusudan Das, styling himself 'Tarini Baba', won a family's trust through rituals and claimed paranormal powers, then abducted their sixteen-to-seventeen-year-old daughter, transported her across three states, raped her repeatedly and sold her. He was convicted under IPC sections 366, 376(2)(n), 370-A and 506, drawing concurrent terms of up to ten years' rigorous imprisonment, and the Orissa High Court upheld the conviction without modification in Jail Criminal Appeal No. 60 of 2019.

Appellate history

  1. Date in cited record · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • ritual performances that won the family's trust and access to the household
  • abduction and interstate transport of the girl

Primary record

Sources

legal news court reporting appellate judgment report 'Orissa High Court Upholds Conviction of Tantrik in Rape and Trafficking Case' (Madhusudan Das v. State of Odisha, Jail Crl. Appeal No. 60/2019).

Legal-news summary of the High Court judgment, with statute-level detail.

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