Police superintendent Nal Prasad Upadhyaya, who headed up the investigation, told CNN Monday that Kodai Harijan admitted committing the gruesome crime with his relatives after consulting the shaman.
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In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a 10-year-old boy has been killed in Nepal by a man to “chase away the evil spirits” from the body of his ailing son, prompting police to arrest nine men in connection with the gory incident.
He had been missing for three days.
Local media reports said the father of a sick teenager had last Tuesday lured away the 10-year-old, Jeevan Kohar, with a packet of biscuits and the promise of 50 rupees ($A1.07). He then performed a religious rite, killed the boy anddumped his body in a bush, media reports said. The boy’s head was nearly severed from his body completely when police found him, according to CNN.
At least eleven peopled have reportedly been arrested in southwestern Nepal in a suspected case of ritual murder.
The village of Kudiya is home to “untouchables”, the lowest level of Nepal’s traditional caste system and typically the country’s poorest and least educated people. Both the victim and the accused in this recent killing are from this social class. Many regularly forfeit animals like roosters, buffaloes and goats to improve the gods. The boy was taken to an isolated place with the help of neighbours.
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“From the government level, we are going to launch (an) awareness program against these superstitions in the villages of Nawalparasi district”.
