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    Boy sacrificed for hidden treasure in Andhra

    Hyderabad, Jan 26 (IANS) A 14-year-old boy was killed by a group of people in the belief that a human sacrifice would yield them a secret treasure in Andhra Pradesh's Nirmal town, police said Thursday.

    The police Thursday recovered the body of Ganesh at Shyamgarh Fort on the outskirts of the town in Adilabad district, about 250 km from here.

    One man, Raju, who reportedly sold the boy for Rs.20,000 to the treasure seekers, has been arrested while eight members of the gang which sacrificed him are yet untraced and on the run, police said.

    The boy was sacrificed for the believed-to-be hidden treasure in the fort on Amavasya (new moon night) on the intervening night of Jan 24-25. He was buried in the same area and the police exhumed the body Thursday.

    Ganesh was a Class 9 student at a private school, and was lured away with snacks by Raju, the boy's family members alleged.

    On interrogating, Raju confessed to have sold the boy to a man named Prabhakar.

    The angry relatives of the boy blockaded a road, demanding the police take immediate action against all accused.

    According to locals, several people in the town and other areas in the district believe in hidden treasures and that a human sacrifice would reveal these.

     

    46 comments

    • tanu  •  3 months ago
      This is pure greed and not related to any kind of religion.These practices happened in fables that we have read in our childhood. However such incidences cannot be connected to any mythology. Sometimes pots of money do come out while excavations or during construction of houses.There are people who still believe that human sacrifice is essential to build a bridge.This is obviously a hangover of some irrational beliefs during the medieval ages.
      However such crude and gross practices should be condemned and also treated with stringent action.... both by the government as well as through societal pressure.Such people should be allowed to go scotfree.
      • alfing 3 months ago
        Not only pure greed but the false hope of achieving something by irrational and foolish tools developed and justified by unsound and anti humane mythologies. Such mythologies have no regard for human values and rather try to defile, demoralise, humiliate and eliminate living beings for getting a better life after death. Such faiths teach hatred and intoleration toward one another. The result is that people can go upto any worst dimension to achieve their selfish mottos. The deities of such faith are also found indulging and resorting to immoral, unethical acts like cheating, wrong doings, accepting human and animal sacrifices for granting favours even to the most cunning and lowly fellows. What better can be expected of the poor common fellows when God himself teaches racism, casteism, discrimination and injustice toward the innocent docile common man.
    • gondwanian  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      a big middle finger for such a*sho**s!
    • senior citizen  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  4 months ago
      this is a cruel act days of superstition gone where were all people who fought these practises catch the villains and sacrifice them in fire worst than the talibhan acts why no religios leaders dont raise their protsts a human cruelty is worse than accusing a faith law to hang them when?
      • arvin 3 months ago
        Every thing is fair in the land of Devil-Dassis where sacred hearted small girls are sacrificed for pleasing the devil gods.
    • chandra  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  4 months ago
      What Mr.Kaushal has written below is very correct. But all countries in the world, even the smallest have leaders who are patriotic and put their country first. In this goddamn country its exactly ulta. The "so called Leaders" in this country are further dividing the people on the basis of caste, creed, community, religion etc.,etc. for their own benefits. Ophra Winfrey summed everything about us when she said our roads its like "video games". We pat ourselves having great culture, but in reality we have no behaviour culture, no discipline, no respect for others. Scams, farmers deaths, infant deaths in hospitals, minorities threatening the govts, household murders on trivial issues, marriages breaking down in short span, naxals, an army general fighting the govt instead of the enemy, failure in sports, corporates taking the public and the govt for super rides, its an endless list. Where in the world can you have so many problems mankind can face ? And we have a PM who has nothing to say on anything ! From CWG to Gen. VK.Singh issue this spinless PM is dumb !! NO talking to the nation to confidence building, no reassurances to the people, no actions taken on anything. All matters dragged, even a nuclear plant issue !!! This country today is direction less, like an boat drifiting in high seas rudderless. Tsunamis and storms are awating to happen.
    • KRS  •  4 months ago
      This really stupid and idiotic . they killed the boy , did they get the treasure . stupid idoits . now the police on nabbing all culprits must hang them in public to teach such fools a lesson . Such idiotic things must never be believed . only hard work can be the way to make money and wealth . a severe death peanlty for such muderious acts must be made a sringent law in our country . punishment must be performed in public .for such in human guys .
      • HindustanAHMED 4 months ago
        All ok...its all here depend on witness time pass . but for only money,why hard work one very easy &simple method is to become a politition.
      • HindustanAHMED 4 months ago
        we need a help of Gujrati,strong personalities who can do fake incounters like Ishrath Jahan
    • Ismail Ahmed  •  Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh  •  4 months ago
      do the same to this killers likekill this people childrens or dear ones in front of their eyes in the same fashion,and make it liveprogramm and put thispeople in dungeons for sometime for grief and then publicly killed them
      • Vijayan 3 months ago
        These methods of killing the killers and opponents and their innocent relatives have been under practice right from the beginning. Still there were no sign of tranquility seen anywhere there were human beings. Continuity of umpteen blood sheds in the name of creeds and many other reasons can easily be seen in bible, quran and hindu mythologies. The "great god" himselves persuaded his men for executing massacres - the great books shows. A slight change for these brutalities has come only in the last centuries, even that is not because of the gods but with the effort of real humanity works.
      • Waseeq 3 months ago
        That may be so but none of the religions has ever propagated sacrificing innocent children for lust of wealth.
      • SugahDaisy541 3 months ago
        then what is the difference between you and them?
    • MB  •  Torrance, United States  •  4 months ago
      Quran says take a revenge from the culprits, take eye in revenge to eye, life in revenge to life. There is no place in Islam for superstitions. Hang them publicly so that no body can try in future. My whole sympathy with the parents and relatives of the victim. May Allah bless this innocent young soul.
      • BALU 4 months ago
        Iam agree with you my dear...
      • Vijayan 3 months ago
        Nurturing real humanity in people right from the childhoold is the only solution for stoping such cruelties and killing away the culprits are not a solution. Killing a dove, goat or a bull for meat is as simple as killing a human being. When you think that the "Allah" can make anything happen then why it is not geting materialized right from the only first couple on earth. So it is stupidity to change the world without practicing invariably love and humanity and realize there is noting greater than loving each other and get it practiced without a consideration of creed, caste and religion.
      • MB 3 months ago
        illitracy is the main cause. To cut iron, you have to use iron. Just preach them for good deeds will make no effect. They think you are a fool. Capital punishment is the only remedy for such a heneious crime.
        May Allah Subhanahu Taala guide us for the right path.
    • neeru  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      can't believe such assholes are alive even today,so sad
    • Satyam  •  Ahmadabad, Gujarat  •  3 months ago
      Whatever the the Centurywhat ever the religious this is aginst humanitarian as well as against all of us. We condem strongly..... We should make remarkable public killing of such people so in future no one will even think for such... ( should kill such animals as per Islamic rules in Public with stonnning to them .. )
    • bandla s  •  Lancaster, United Kingdom  •  4 months ago
      wtf,.i just cant beleive it.,am from hyd and i've never heard of such a thing before,.may be in movies,but really!!human sacrifice!,.idiotic people,.how can expect money without their effort.,its simply wrong
    • Khalid  •  Washington, United States  •  4 months ago
      It is sad. Poor kid
    • Heman  •  4 months ago
      Yes, few of them are still believe in blind faiths.
      Its high time to catch the culprits and hang them in the same place, so that others think twice before committing such mistakes.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Kochi, Kerala  •  3 months ago
      human balls will reveal those not human lives, All rub ur balls and a jin will appear and give u the hidden treasure
    • sujit d  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      This is again one of the reasons we are still behind by many countries.... In spite of having everything in this counrty, we people..... are not ready to grow.... and beleave me no one can make us grow unless we do not want to...Culprits should be hanged.....
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 months ago
      They could shot or hanged or put behind bar for life. Can this bring back the life to the innocent boy? Why dont they start mass compains agains superstitions so that no more innocents lose their life in such brutal manner.
    • sheth  •  Rajkot, Gujarat  •  3 months ago
      Oh No !!
    • Perveen  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      It is tery sorry to say that til 2dy superstition playing a vital roll in our society. Police should shut them in public so non of will think like that. There should be Tit 4 tat..
    • arvin  •  3 months ago
      This is purely the product of the evil customs, after effect of social injustice, exploitation, discrimination, ignorance, selfish and devilious religious systems, irrational and unjustified rule of jungle, zero moral and ethical support to common man, and over all prevalence of might is right i.e gundaism. The common man started believing everything except himself and started begging relief from all real and fictious forces. It shows that the common man is totally disheartened, demoralised by his own religious preachers, is tought to live a cowardice life in a best suited manner to the cunning selfish fellows.
    • arvin  •  3 months ago
      It is all Devil-ism where devils or evil spiritted are pleased with human and animal sacrifices to get good fortunes. Evil heads propagate begging, cheating, racism, casteism and superstitious life to make the people poor and poorer and weaken their power and efforts to seek economic, political and social justice.
    • arvin  •  3 months ago
      Bloody racist and casteist stupids can not be expected to do anything better than this. The real face of Gunduism.
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