A self-proclaimed occult practitioner is among three people arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing two women as human sacrifices in India.
“We were already investigating the case of the first missing woman when we found the last mobile phone location of [another] woman who went missing in September was also around the couple's home,” Kumar said.
The two women made a living by selling lottery tickets from house to house. Their mutilated bodies were buried in the couple's compound. Police are investigating if Shafi was also involved in other cases.The Hindustan Times newspaper reported the neighbours said “it was difficult for them to believe he was a party to gory murders”.
“Many people used to come here for treatment for fractures, bruises and other such ailments. We never suspected anything foul and he was well-mannered,” Gopan K said.xperts, belief in witchcraft and the occult is still widespread in many parts of rural India, where occasional incidents of human sacrifice have been reported.
Earlier in October, two men were arrested for allegedly killing a six-year-old child in the capital, New Delhi, reports said. The construction workers told police they were under the influence of cannabis and murdered the boy as a sacrifice to the Hindu god Shiva in a bid to get rich.
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