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| Girl Beheaded For Sacrifice |
| 2005-06-18 |
| THREE people, one a tantric, have been charged with murder after pouring boiling oil over a four-and-a-half-year-old girl before beheading her as part of a religious sacrifice. The tantric, or person who practises black magic, and two accomplices were arrested on Wednesday in the town of Muzaffarnagar in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, the Press Trust of India said, quoting police. The body of the girl, named Surjo, had been found in a field the previous day, the agency reported. A police spokesman said she had been "beheaded, her fingers cut off and her hair burnt to a cinder". The accused had apparently poured boiling oil on the girl before beheading and mutilating her, the spokesman said. Police were looking for a woman who handed over the girl to the tantric after he told her to sacrifice a child to be cleansed spiritually. The relationship between the girl and the woman was uncertain, the police spokesman said. |
| Posted by:Spavirt Pheng6042 |
| #2 Some cancers have to be cut out and utterly destroyed. This is one. The jury is still out on Islam. How's that for a value judgement? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-06-18 20:23 |
| #1 utterly barbaric hear that multiculturalists? I'm making a value judgement here about another culture. I think it should be discriminated against! |
| Posted by: anon1 2005-06-18 13:45 |