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Ajay Singh (22) of Mitrapur village under Nilagiri police station area had married the tribal two years ago but the couple remained issueless.
The family consulted a `tantrik` Gadadhar Goswami of village Purulia under Baghamundi police station in West Bengal who assured the family that "after some rituals the woman would bear a child positively".
Trusting the tantrik, the tribal family left the woman with him in a room for some puja, where she was raped, police said quoting her complaint.
Police arrested the tantrik and two others for abetting the crime.