India, May 13 -- Three individuals - a couple and a self-proclaimed "tantric"- have been booked for polluting public wells with supposedly occult materials in Revdanda in Raigad district on May 11.

The couple was identified as Akhlaq Ayub Khan and Reshma Akhlaq Khan, residents of Navi Mumbai. The police identified Maulana Khalid as the self-proclaimed "tantric" from Kalyan who provided the occult material to the couple.

According to the Revdanda Police, the couple allegedly approached Khalid to perform black magic on their daughter to force her to end a romantic relationship deemed undesirable by her parents.

Khalid allegedly provided them with bricks bound with amulets after performing certain rituals, claiming they were enchanted. A ...