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Three people have been arrested for allegedly killing a 10-year-old boy here after an occultist asked them to perform a "human sacrifice", police said on Sunday.
Superintendent of Police Prashant Verma said that Parsa village resident Krishna Verma's son Vivek went missing on Thursday evening. That same night, a child's body was found in a field with its throat slit, he said.
During the investigation, the police found that the deceased child's cousin Anoop had a two-and-a-half-year-old son who was mentally disturbed and also used to be sick. When the treatment did not yield positive results, Anoop approached an occultist near his village, police said.
The occultist instigated Anoop to perform a human sacrifice, after which he along with Vivek's uncle Chintaram killed the child using a spade, police said.
The three accused — Anoop, Chintaram and an occultist — were arrested on Saturday, police said. The SP said on Sunday that a case of murder has been registered against the accused.
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