KANPUR: The gruesome Ghatampur incident in which a six-year-old girl was hacked to death and her vital organs like liver were devoured in an occult ritual, was hatched after the accused read about a black magic remedy for progeny in a book purchased from a stall at a railway station.
After interrogation of the accused during ongoing investigation, on Wednesday, SP (Rural) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said, “The accused Parshuram said he got married in 1999 but his wife Sunaina had not been able to conceive since. He revealed that he bought a book on black magic from a stall at a railway station and after reading a remedy for having progeny in it, he lured his nephew Ankul and his friend Beeran, to carry the heinous crime believing that it will help his wife give birth to a child.” He persuaded Ankul and Beeran to kidnap and kill the girl and then bring her lungs and other vital organs, the SP added.
Ankul and Beeran got heavily drunk and then abducted the girl from Bhadras village while she had gone out to buy firecrackers on November 14 (Diwali night), said Srivastava.
They took her to a nearby jungle, where they raped the girl before killing her.
“The killers thereafter cut out lungs and other organs from the body so that Parashuram and his wife Sunaina could perform black magic for bearing a child,” said police officials. “The accused have been charged under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sent to jail,” they added.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)