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2003-10-07 15:17:44 UTC
Bihar tantriks offer youth's head to deity for magical powers
Indo-Asian News Service
Patna, October 7
Tantriks beheaded a youth and offered his head to a local deity to
gain supernatural powers at a village in Bihar, reports said on
Tuesday.
The tantriks cut off the head of 25-year-old Binay Kumar of Barbigha
village in Sheikhpura district on Monday night and offered it to
Dakbaba, the local deity.
The incident comes close on the heels of Union Minister of State for
Human Resources Sanjay Paswan encouraging witchcraft practitioners by
calling them traditional healers in Bihar.
The youth, who ran a sweets shop in the village, was abducted
recently. His headless body was later found in a field, and his head
discovered later in a temple.
The incident has created panic and fear among villagers. But some
believe the head being found in the temple was a smokescreen and the
youth had actually been murdered.
His head was offered to the village god to mislead people about the
motive behind the murder, some villagers said.
Indo-Asian News Service
Patna, October 7
Tantriks beheaded a youth and offered his head to a local deity to
gain supernatural powers at a village in Bihar, reports said on
Tuesday.
The tantriks cut off the head of 25-year-old Binay Kumar of Barbigha
village in Sheikhpura district on Monday night and offered it to
Dakbaba, the local deity.
The incident comes close on the heels of Union Minister of State for
Human Resources Sanjay Paswan encouraging witchcraft practitioners by
calling them traditional healers in Bihar.
The youth, who ran a sweets shop in the village, was abducted
recently. His headless body was later found in a field, and his head
discovered later in a temple.
The incident has created panic and fear among villagers. But some
believe the head being found in the temple was a smokescreen and the
youth had actually been murdered.
His head was offered to the village god to mislead people about the
motive behind the murder, some villagers said.