Pune: Secretary of a housing society located in Kondhwa has been booked on charges of practicing 'black magic' and criminal intimidation of the society resident over a minor dispute. The incident took place in Picasso Paradise Apartment at Sahyadri Park in Salunkhe Vihar area of Kondhwa.

Society resident Rupesh Agarwal has filed a complaint in this regard. Based on his complaint, Kondhwa police have registered FIR against society secretary Rajkumar Joshi and his son Ankur Joshi, both residing at Picasso Paradise Apartment. The suspects have been booked under sections 294, 500, 504, 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code including section 3(2) of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Injurious, and Aghori Practices and Witchcraft Act, 2013.

According to the complainant, his father Rajendra Agarwal was leaving in their car for their office in the morning of March 14, 2024. When Rajendra Agarwal noticed that the society security personnel is missing from his duty, he asked society secretary Rajkumar Joshi about it.

Agarwal claims that Joshi responded saying that the personnel has gone to wash his car. Rajendra Agarwal objected to Joshi's personal work being done by society security personnel. Furious over this, Joshi's son Ankur abused the complainant, his father and threatened the duo, states the FIR.

The FIR further mentions that Ankur and his aides practiced 'black magic' at the society gate and caused 'mental harassment' to Agarwal family. Agarwal, in his complaint, has mentioned that Rupesh's elder brother Rakesh Agarwal and maternal uncle Kishanchand Agarwal were trailed by the suspects and intimidated. Meanwhile, Rakesh Agarwal suffered a cardiac arrest after this incident.