Exorcist sacrifices elderly man for a child to his issueless client

In a horrific crime, an exorcist beheaded and sacrificed a 65-year-old man for a boy child to his issueless client.

- Prasun K Mishra

AURANGABAD: The decapitated corpse of the man was burnt in Holika fire and his head buried in a pond under the jurisdiction of Madanpur police station in Aurangabad district, police said.

Police swung into action on March 19 after Raja Ram Yadav, a resident of Gulab Bigha village, arrived at Madanpur police station and said that his elder brother, Yugal Yadav (65), had gone to participate in Holika Dahan near Bangare village on a bicycle but had not returned home since then.

He also informed the police that burnt bones were found in the ashes of the Holika, and his brother's slippers were discovered nearby, along with bloodstains on a culvert. Suspecting that his brother had been kidnapped, murdered, and his body burned in the Holika, he reported the matter to the police.