Uttar Pradesh: Class 2 boy killed as sacrifice for ‘school’s prosperity’, five held
The owner of the school and his son were among those arrested.
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A boy studying in Class 2 at a residential school in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district was killed by the owners of the institute as part of an alleged human sacrifice, the police said on Friday, The Hindu reported.
The incident took place on September 23 at the DL Public School, located in the Rasgwan village in the Sahapau area, after its owner, Jasodhan Singh, asked his son Dinesh Baghel, who is also the director of the school, to sacrifice a child for the “prosperity” of the institute.
The school had a low number of students enrolled in it, the police said, adding that Singh had also taken a loan to start it.
Five persons, including Jasodhan Singh and Baghel, were arrested for the murder. The three others held were the principal of the school, Laxman Singh, and two teachers named Ramprakash Solanki and Veerpal Singh.
On September 23, the student, identified as nine-year-old Kritarth, was abducted from the hostel in the school by Jasodhan Singh, Baghel and Solanki, Hathras Additional Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh was quoted as saying by The Hindu.
The boy was taken to a secluded place to be sacrificed, the police officer said. He was strangulated hurriedly after he woke up and began crying, according to the official.
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