Ghaziabad, Feb. 7 -- The police in Loni arrested a 65-year-old man on charges of raping a 30-year-old woman and also her 16-year-old daughter on the pretext of performing tantrik rituals to bring back the woman's estranged husband, police said Thursday.

Police identified the suspect as Fizu (single name), a resident of Ikram Nagar in Loni, and said he raped the woman several times during the past year. The officials said relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act were also added to the FIR. He was arrested from Loni tri-crossing area on Thursday.

Suryabali Maurya, assistant police commissioner, Loni, said the woman's husband left home about a year ago, and soon after that, the woman came in contact ...