India, March 30 -- A Nashik court on Sunday extended the police custody of arrested self-styled 'godman' Ashok Kharat till April 1 after investigators informed the court that crucial mobile data retrieved by the state forensic science laboratory is yet to be analysed.

Kharat was arrested on March 18 following a complaint by a married woman who alleged that she was sexually abused by him over a period of three years, from November 2022. To date, ten FIRs, eight for alleged sexual assault or exploitation and two for cheating, have been registered against him.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) produced Kharat before additional chief judicial magistrate MV Bharade, seeking further custody to examine the cloned data from his mobile phone ...