Hathras shocker: Class 2 boy killed as human sacrifice for UP school ‘prosperity’; most important among 5 arrested | Latest news India

An 11-year-old boy studying in Class 2 was killed last week as part of an alleged ‘black magic’ human sacrifice ritual by the owners of his school to make the educational institution ‘more prosperous’ in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh.

According to police, the boy, identified as Kritarth, was studying at DL Public School.

The school’s owner, Jasodhan Singh, who is said to believe in ‘tantrik’ rituals, had asked his son (the school’s principal), Dinesh Baghel, to sacrifice a child for the “prosperity” of the school and his family , the police said. .

On September 23, the father-son duo, along with three other staff members, abducted the victim from the school hostel and took him to a secluded place for the sacrifice, said Ashok Kumar Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Hathras. news agency PTI.

However, the boy woke up and started crying.

The suspects then strangled and killed the boy, police said.

According to police, the suspect told the child’s parents that their son was being taken to a hospital in Baghel’s car because he was not doing well. However, the child’s relatives stopped halfway in the car and learned of their son’s death. They immediately alerted the police.

5 people arrested

The Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested five people in the case: school owner Jasodhan Singh, principal Dinesh Baghel, principal Laxman Singh and two other teachers, Ramprakash Solanki and Veerpal Singh.

An FIR has been registered against them under section 103 (1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

In a similar incident, a mother-daughter duo was arrested in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in May for killing two children aged four and seven as part of a human sacrifice. According to police, the suspects performed the sacrificial rituals at the suggestion of a Tantrik to get rid of the ‘aatma’ (soul) residing in one of their bodies.