JOIN USAstrologer kidnaps, rapes minor
Police are looking for Siddesh (46), who runs a astrology outfit called Mahashakti Mastamma Devi Jyotishalaya on Turuvanur Road and is reported to have kidnapped the ninth standard student from the school here a week ago and taken her to Rastapur village Shahapur taluk.
While the girl to whom this reporter spoke alleged that she had been raped, police have only registered a case of kidnap on a complaint from her father.
More seriously, the aunt of the girl claimed that Siddesh’s motive behind the kidnap was to sacrifice the girl to appease some deity, in order to acquire wealth.
“It is only since a year that we know Siddesh . We did not suspect him. He often took my daughter to Mastamma Devi temple at Jogimatti,” said the girl’s father. The traumatised girl who is undergoing treatment at the district hospital told Deccan Herald that after her father dropped her at the school, she came out to buy a pencil from a shop, when she was pulled into an auto, gagged and taken to some place.
“Siddesh, who was there said he would marry me. They made me wear a red sari, bangles and perform pooja. There were four more men along with Siddesh. I did not know any of them. They gave me some sedative and raped me.”
From the girl’s testimony, apparently the crime was even more heinous, involving a kidnap, a gang rape and also attempt at blackmail.
“Siddesh took me from Gulbarga to Hiriyur travellers’ bungalow. At Hiriyur, he said he had raped me and nobody would marry me. He said I should go to the police station and report and make my father withdraw the complaint lodged against him.” she said.
“He said if I did that he would leave his wife and live with me. He also got a woman to accompany me to Chitradurga,” the girl told Deccan herald.
Siddesh is reportedly married and his wife and children live in Bangalore. he has a daughter who is a PU student.