Agra: A self-styled exorcist killed a two-and-a-half-year-old boy in the name of “sacrifice” in Kheragarh tehsil of the Agra district. The accused Bhola alias Hukam Singh a self-styled exorcist who has been arrested by the police, killed Hrithik “to please Chamad Mata” in the village. As per the police, the accused has confessed to the crime that on June 15, he had kidnapped the son of Ramavatar, a resident of Barigwan, after seeing him playing alone near a well.
He took him to his room and strangled him to death and placed the toddler's body at the feet of the deity. The self-styled exorcist later put Hrithik's body in a sack and hid it in the bushes. The body was recovered by the police and the villagers on June 16. The police finally zeroed in on the accused, who told police that at four o'clock on the morning of June 16, he had thrown the child's body in the dry Kibar river.