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Police person arrested the 35-year-old parent of a teenage miss who was strangled successful a sacrificial ritual successful Kusumbha village, on with an occult practitioner and a man, an serviceman said.
Hazaribagh Superintendent of Police Anjani Anjan and Hazaribag DIG Anjani Jha announced the arrests successful a late-night property league connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026).
The constabulary said they had arrested Reshmi Devi, the parent of the girl, 55-year-old Shanti Devi, an occultist, and 40-year-old Bhim Ram, each of them from the aforesaid village.
The National Commission for Women constituted a three-member enquiry committee to probe the alleged murder.
The committee, which was formed connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026), volition sojourn the spot connected Thursday (April 2, 2026) and interact with the authorities concerned.
Anjani Anjan said Reshmi Devi often visited a 'tantrik' (occult practitioner) successful her colony for the attraction of her youngest son, who suffers from immoderate intelligence and carnal sickness.
"The occult practitioner told the parent that they needed to sacrifice a virgin miss to cure the lad of each ailments," helium said.
The serviceman said that connected March 24, the nighttime of Ashtami, erstwhile the full colony was immersed successful festive celebrations and was seeing the Mangla Julus (a Ram Navami procession), the miss was strangled astatine the location of Shanti Devi, allegedly by her ain parent and Bhim Ram.
They, aft sidesplitting the girl, buried her assemblage successful a garden.
The enquiry committee has been asked to taxable its study to the National Commission for Women (NCW) wrong 10 moving days.
Ms. Anjan said that the 3 tried to mislead the investigators by claiming rape, which was not proved successful the postmortem and forensic report.
Bhim Ram besides faces allegations of murdering his sister-in-law and different individual, Ms. Anjan added.
The Jharkhand High Court connected Monday (March 30, 2026) took suo motu cognisance of the alleged rape and execution of the miss successful Bishnugarh successful Hazaribagh and served a announcement to the authorities medication and the manager wide of police.
A part seat of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad took enactment of the incidental based connected media reports.
Earlier, the girl's parent alleged that her girl was abducted, and her assemblage was recovered connected March 25 successful a tract successful the village.
The absorption BJP staged a 12-hour bandh successful Hazaribagh connected Monday (March 30, 2026) to protestation against the killing.
