Fatehabad, Jul 21: A 60-year-old self-proclaimed savior of Hindutva and mahant of a prominent temple in Haryana’s Fatehabad has been arrested by police for allegedly raping more than 120 women and making video clips of the rapes.
The arrest was made on Friday after videos of Baba Amarpuri alias Billu of Baba Balaknath temple raping several women surfaced online. He used the rape clips to blackmail the women and rape them again and again.
The cops have received at least such 120 clips, each with a different victim. The tantric made the clips himself with his cellphone.
“We filed a case and started the probe. His premises were also raided and we seized some suspicious articles,” said that police.
It is learnt that a relative of the accused gave the clips to the cops in a CD. Fatehabad women police station in-charge, inspector Bimla Devi said Amarpuri has been sent to police remand for five days.
“We are in the process of getting details about his victims so that their statements can be recorded,” she said, adding that two women have come forward and are ready to record their statements against him.
“Amarpuri would threaten the women that he would make the clips public and force them to visit him multiple times,” Devi said.
The Mahant has been booked under various IPC sections, including rape, word, gesture or act obscenity and criminal intimidation. Sections of Information Technology Act have also been invoked.
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