5 Arrested For Human Sacrifice At Kamakhya Temple: Assam Police
Five persons, of them from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, had been arrested for allegedly beheading a girl for human sacrifice at Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati some days earlier than the Ambubachi Mela approximately 4 years in the past, police stated on Tuesday. Giving the chilling info of the incident, Guwahati Police Commissioner Diganta Bora stated the beheaded frame of a 64-year-antique girl changed into observed blanketed with a blanket at the staircase of the Joy Durga Mandir withinside the precincts of the Kamakhya Temple on June 19, 2019 hours after she changed into killed.
A suo moto case changed into registered at Jalukbari police station withinside the town and research changed into released however changed into not on time because of loss of clues withinside the beginning.
It changed into later observed that the girl had come from West Bengal along side a sadhu and different ladies to wait the once a year Ambubachi mela and had long past lacking for the reason that then, he stated.
Kamakhya Temple is a Shakti Peeth and is one of the oldest and maximum respected facilities of Tantrik practices. The Ambubachi mela is held withinside the temple each year.
The frame changed into diagnosed over a month later via way of means of her son, a resident of Bengal`s Hooghly district. He got here to Jalukbari police station after coming to recognise of the locating of the frame via media reports. He diagnosed his mom on the idea of garments at the frame and tattoos, Borah stated.
The case changed into these days reviewed and a unique crew of Assam Police changed into entrusted to perform similarly research, the police commssioner stated.
The crew analysed the technical evidences accumulated in advance and primarily based totally on them went to Coochbehar in West Bengal and recovered the victim’s cellular handset, garments and Aadhar card from the residence of someone.
On being interrogated, the character stated that the bag with those gadgets had been left in his residence reportedly via way of means of a sadhu named Mata Prasad Pandey who used to go to the region for numerous years at some point of the months of June and July, Borah stated.
Further research caused the arrest of Pandey alias Mateswari Giri from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh on March 25 this year. After wondering him 3 others had been arrested from Bhootnath crematorium right here for allegedly beheading the girl as an providing to the goddess Kali some days earlier than the Ambubachi Mela, the police commissioner stated.
Borah stated the girl and 4 guys had first done Kapali puja, a tantrik practice, at the intervening night time of June 18-19 in 2019 first on the crematorium wherein they all fed on alcohol. They then went to Joy Durga Mandir, wherein after every other spherical of puja the girl changed into beheaded with an axe.
The victim’s head changed into taken in a packet via way of means of the guys and disposed in Brahmaputra river, he stated.
Borah stated at some point of research it changed into observed that the puja changed into backed via way of means of someone named Pradeep Pathak alias Dinesh for his more youthful brother, who changed into a Naga sadhu and had died eleven years in the past at the equal day.
Pathak changed into in the end arrested from his house in Mathura on April 1, 2023.
Another sadhu who had allegedly observed him to Assam remains absconding and seek is directly to understand him, Borah stated.
