Tamil Nadu: Man 'sacrifices' 13-year-old daughter on occultist's advice

In a case of human sacrifice, a man killed his 13-year-old daughter in Tamil Nadu and was arrested by the police. This is not an isolated incident as one might think. The crime has been done by accused in the name of superstitions.

Pudhukottai:In a shocking incident reported from Tamil Nadu's Pudhukottai, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly ‘sacrificed’ (murdered) by her father on the advice of an occultist a few days ago in Kandhravakottai area. The accused father has been arrested by police on Tuesday.

The deceased girl has been identified as Vidya, daughter of Paneer of the same locality.

According to sources, the incident came to light around two, three days ago when the father approached the police and filed a complaint that her daughter was allegedly abducted from his house, raped by unidentified miscreants and later, killed.

Acting on a tip-off, police started investigating into the incident and a team of forensic experts summoned from Pudhukottai collected evidence from the crime scene. Later, police began suspecting the father’s involvement after interrogating other people of the locality.

As per police, Paneer has confessed to the crime. During an interrogation, Paneer said that there were disputes going on in his family for a male child. When he discussed it with an occultist about this matter, he advised Paneer to sacrifice his daughter to get a male child.

Police also said that Paneer was continuously changing his statements and gave a contradictory reason that he sacrifice her daughter to claim the wish of getting a male child.

Police said that the accused has been charged under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of the offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code.

Police also initiated a manhunt to nab the another accused occultist who advised Paneer to commit the crime. Further probe was on, sources said.