{"id":98750,"date":"2026-03-21T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/maharashtra-epstein-files-nashik-astrologer-rape-case-triggers-political-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:36:25","slug":"maharashtra-epstein-files-nashik-astrologer-rape-case-triggers-political-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/maharashtra-epstein-files-nashik-astrologer-rape-case-triggers-political-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Maharashtra Epstein Files\u2019: Nashik astrologer rape case triggers political storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-proclaimed spiritual leader, Ashok Kharat, has been arrested in Maharashtra on sexual assault charges, with the Opposition drawing parallels to the &#8216;Epstein files&#8217; due to alleged videos of him assaulting women. His alleged links to ruling alliance politicians have intensified political scrutiny, prompting the formation of an SIT to investigate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-proclaimed spiritual leader, Ashok Kharat, has been arrested in Maharashtra on sexual assault charges, with the Opposition drawing parallels to the &#8216;Epstein files&#8217; due to alleged videos of him assaulting women. His alleged links to ruling alliance politicians have intensified political scrutiny, prompting the formation of an SIT to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":98751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}