Eight-month-old baby rescued from alleged sacrifice ritual

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Members of the Child Welfare Committee and the territory constabulary rescued an eight-month-old lad connected January 3, pursuing a ailment of suspected ritual sacrifice for wealth.

According to the constabulary and kid extortion sources, officials from Childline (1098) and the District Child Protection Unit acted connected an anonymous extremity that a kid was astir to beryllium killed arsenic portion of the ritual. They raided the location located successful Janatha Colony, Sulibele village, and rescued the baby.

Officials recovered that a couple, the baby’s adoptive parents, had dug a spread and placed a coconut, incense sticks, and different pooja items.

They had allegedly adopted the babe from a migrant idiosyncratic mates from Kolar without pursuing ineligible procedures. Both couples person been detained by the Sulibele police.

The child, reportedly atable, is undergoing a aesculapian examination.

An probe is nether mode into the circumstances of the attempted sacrifice and the alleged adoption and child-buying arrangements.

Published - January 04, 2026 10:13 p.m. IST

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