Hathras, India

An eight-year-old student from India’s Uttar Pradesh state has revealed how his school teachers had tried killing him as part of a black magic ritual but he survived. The student, from Hathras city, was taken by school teachers on September 6, as his parents were told that their child was having severe pain in his stomach.

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News broadcaster India Today quoted the child’s grandfather as saying, “I noticed marks on his neck, and his eyes were red.”

The child later revealed that the school manager had attempted to suffocate him by pinching his nose and choking him.

Now, days after this incident, a junior class student was ‘sacrificed’ in the same school to bring ‘fame’ to the school. The action, reportedly influenced by a black magic ritual, was carried out by a school teacher. He abducted a boy named Kritarth, a class 2 student, from the school’s hostel on September 23. As he prepared the boy for the sacrificing ritual, he woke up and started crying.

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News agency PTI quoted Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ashok Kumar Singh as saying that the teacher murdered the student by strangulating him.

Police have now made five arrests in the case, including the owner of the school, his son, the principal and two teachers.

The arrested principal and teachers have been identified as Laxman Singh Ramprakash Solanki and Veerpal Singh.

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Owner believed in 'tantrik rituals'

According to media reports, the owner of the school believed in 'tantrik rituals' and wanted to sacrifice a student to bring prosperity to the institute. The owner had asked the principal and his son to make arrangements for the sacrificing ritual.

As the school teachers worked on their evil designs, they told Kritarth’s parents that their child was not well and he was being taken to hospital. The parents were later told that the condition of their child had further deteriorated and he was admitted to Sadabad.

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India Today quoted the father’s boy as saying that the child’s dead body was later recovered from a car owned by the school teachers.

"We followed them towards Agra, but they didn’t stop the car. When we returned, we caught up with them in Sadabad, where we found the child's body in their car,” the father said. Police later said that the post-mortem report revealed that Kritarth was strangled.

NDTV reported that the teachers had tried sacrificing another student on September 6 but failed.

(With inputs from agencies)