One gets death sentence in human sacrifice case

IndiaTimes.com

March 25, 2007

HAZARIBAG: The fast track court of Hazaribag on Friday awarded death sentence to one Mahavir Razak and life imprisonment to three others -- Shashi Thakur, Subhash Bose alias Khepa Baba and Birju Bhuiyan-- in the sensational human sacrifice case.

The additional district and sessions judge, Ramendra Nath Roy, found all of them guilty of the crime and pronounced the judgement.

The judge in his order said after examining all witnesses he found that Razak, only for the sake of fulfilling his personal ambition, kidnapped a child and sacrificed it before Goddess Kali. "This was a heinous crime and all the accused deserve severe punishment," said the judge.

According to sources, Mahavir Razak, who was suffering from a serious disease, including TB, and could not be cured after treatment, approached Subhash Bose alias Khepa Baba, a tantrik, at his ashram in Bhurkunda.

Baba assured Razak that he can be cured if he sacrifices a human being before Goddess Kali, sources said.

Mahavir, then, approached a rickshaw-puller, Birju Bhuyian, who kidnapped a boy Munna Kumar, son of one Vijay Paswan on December 8, 2003, sources said and added that Razak, Baba and Bhuian took Munna to a lonely place and killed him by slitting his neck.

When the child did not come back home, Paswan lodged an FIR with the police station concerned on December 9, 2003. The police recovered the body packed in a gunny bag thrown into the Nalkar river.