In an uncanny incident that happened in the north Indian city of Meerut in the Uttar Pradesh state, a woman's in-laws had purportedly connived to get her raped to ward off the threat to her husb&'s life.

 

Women shouting slogans and holding placards during a protest against rape in India REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

The incident became known on Saturday when the woman's family registered a police complaint against her in-laws.

The woman said when she met the other family members in the morning they told her that the tantric had told them to do so as her husb& wouldn’t have survived if he had spent the wedding night with her, The Hindustan Times reported.

Blind faith in these fake tantric or holy man is very common in India & at times people don't even dither to put their own or other's life at stake.

The latest incident comes a few weeks after notorious spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh got convicted in a 2002 rape case.

His conviction resulted in deadly riots across the state.

Supporters of the controversial guru rioted after the court's verdict, attacking railway stations, petrol stations & television vans in towns across the northern states of Punjab & Haryana.