Police Nabbed Five People Over Human Sacrifice At Indian Temple

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Five men have been arrested by Indian Police for killing a temple worshipper for human sacrifice. 

The culprit were arrested four years after the headless corpse was discovered in a Hindu temple. The victim Shanti Shaw, 64, was murdered and beheaded with a machete in 2019 after he paid a visit to the temple in Guwahati, a city in India’s remote northeast.

Police had toiled with the case for four years with every investigation hitting a brick wall. Things however turn around after the body was finally identified in January, sparking a renewed investigation that tracked down several culprits, with others still at large.

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“The five planned the killing of the woman,” Guwahati police commissioner Diganta Barah told reporters late Tuesday. “A total of 12 people took part.”

Barah said the alleged ringleader, Pradeep Pathak, 52, had orchestrated the killing as part of a religious rite to mark the anniversary of his brother’s death.

“The accused apparently believed that the sacrifice would appease the soul of the deceased,” he added.

Pathak and four others were taken into custody between March 25 and April 1, with police still hunting for their remaining seven accomplices.

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India’s National Crime Records Bureau lodged 103 cases of human sacrifice in the country between 2014 and 2021.

Ritual killings are usually conducted to appease deities and are more common in tribal and remote areas, where belief in witchcraft and the occult is widespread.

Last year two men were arrested for allegedly killing a six-year-old boy in the capital New Delhi, India.

The culprits, both construction workers, told police they murdered the child as an offering to the Hindu god Shiva to get rich.

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