{"id":24069,"date":"2023-04-07T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24069"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:30:36","slug":"5-accused-of-carrying-out-human-sacrifice-at-a-hindu-temple-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/5-accused-of-carrying-out-human-sacrifice-at-a-hindu-temple-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"5 accused of carrying out human sacrifice at a Hindu temple in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in India have arrested five people in connection with the 2019 murder of a woman at a Hindu temple in what they say was a case of ritual human sacrifice. A Shanti Shaw, 64, was beheaded with a machete at the Kamakhya Temple in Assam state&#8217;s capital Guwahati as an &#8220;offering&#8221; to the temple goddess, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw&#8217;s decapitated body was found in June 2019, but only identified a month later by her son. She had travelled to the temple with a Hindu &#8220;godman&#8221; and two other women from another state to attend an annual fair.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been investigating since then but reported no significant evidence until a special team of the Assam Police managed to identify the alleged killers using technical data linking them to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Guwahati police commissioner Diganta Barah told reporters Tuesday that 12 people were involved in the woman&#8217;s murder, with five accused of planning the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Pradeep Pathak, 52, the primary suspect, stands accused of orchestrating the killing to mark the anniversary of his brother&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During investigation, we found this was a case of human sacrifice to please Maa Kamakhya (a Hindu goddess),&#8221; said Barah.<\/p>\n<p>Pathak&#8217;s brother died 11 years earlier, and he allegedly wanted to perform a Hindu ritual on the date of his death in memory of his brother, according to the police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/5-accused-of-carrying-out-human-sacrifice-at-a-hindu-temple-in-india\/ar-AA19vrxl?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=b5eff81843c74ffca9522d5fd7d9adc2&amp;ei=55\">www.msn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in India have arrested five people in connection with the 2019 murder of a woman at a Hindu temple in what they say was a case of ritual human sacrifice. A Shanti Shaw, 64, was beheaded with a machete at the Kamakhya Temple in Assam state&#8217;s capital Guwahati as an &#8220;offering&#8221; to the temple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/5-accused-of-carrying-out-human-sacrifice-at-a-hindu-temple-in-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 accused of carrying out human sacrifice at a Hindu temple in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24070,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions\/24070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}