Cuttack: Mangalabagh police here have registered two more case against Maulana Kaifi Khan, a black magic practitioner from Kesharpur earlier arrested for duping a Ranihat resident in Odisha’s Cuttack city of Rs 62 lakh on the pretext of driving away ‘evil spirit’ from her home and unearthing hidden treasure.
According to sources, the first FIR had been lodged by a woman whom he duped of Rs 15 lakh. The victim, a resident of Sompur in Kishan Nagar, came in contact with Kaifi while looking for a job after the demise of her husband. He took money from her in phases to perform rituals and ended up paying Rs 8 lakh in a year. When the woman did not get a job, she urged him to return her money. Kaifi then persuaded her to join him in diamond business for which she invested Rs 7 lakh more. Three years have elapsed since then and the accused is yet to return the money, she alleged.
The 27-year-old occult practitioner allegedly cheated a resident of Bhadrak also on the pretext of driving away ‘evil spirit’ and unearthing a gold brick from the backyard of his house. The victim had met him during a visit to Kesharpur while looking for a marriage proposal for his daughter and Kaifi promised to set things right. He paid him Rs 5 lakh, which he had saved for his daughter’s marriage, to perform the rituals.
Meanwhile, police have frozen Kaifi’s 11 bank accounts including fixed deposits in Sahara, LIC policies, Saving account in SBI, Bank of Baroda, Allahabad Bank and Central Bank of India. Earlier, 70 mobile phones, 20 expensive watches, Rs 2.76 lakh in cash, two cars (Hyundai Verna and Maruti Suzuki Brezza), brass idols, a Royal Enfield Bullet were seized from his possession.
Sources further said that the Commissionerate Police may seek his remand to question him on the other cases.
