Child’s body exhumed, occult practices likely behind killing
According to police, villagers informed them that four men and a woman had buried a child after offering prayers on the night of Guru Purnima, suggesting it to be a sacrifice.
IANS | Lucknow | July 26, 2021 12:50 pm
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The Agra police have exhumed the body of a three-year-old boy, who is suspected to have been killed for ‘black magic’ rituals.
According to police, villagers informed them that four men and a woman had buried a child after offering prayers on the night of Guru Purnima, suggesting it to be a sacrifice.
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A knife, a spade and prayer material was found near the place where the body was buried on Sunday.
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Station House Officer of Pinhat police station, Pradeep Kumar Chaturvedi, said that the body has been sent for post-mortem to ascertain the cause of death.
The description of the deceased has been sent to neighbouring districts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in an attempt to identify the child.
So far, there is no missing complaint filed for the child in any of the police stations in Agra.
On the occasion of Guru Purnima, a tragic incident occurred today in Nodakhali, South 24 Parganas, where four teenagers drowned while bathing in the Ganges. All four were school students, two of them from the same family.
In a bizarre, another incident of superstition surfaced in Southern India, the Andhra Pradesh police have arrested four men for allegedly practicing black magic in the Musunuru Mandal of the Nuziveedu constituency. These four persons were caught practicing occult worship and black magic at midnight for excavating hidden treasures in Pedapativarigudem village, Sub Inspector (SI) Kutumba Rao informed. The incident is reported from the suburb of the Gopavaram village in Musunuru Mandal.
