Amid widespread suspicion of human sacrifice, police Thursday arrested a Maharashtra village schoolteacher who allegedly killed his college-going daughter following a black magic practitioner's advice for getting a son.
Police also took into custody a witchcraft practitioner on whose advice the teacher, Raibhan Tembhurne, is said to have sacrificed his daughter Rachna in Kudegaon village. The incident came to light Wednesday.
Yielding to pressure from an irate mob that had gathered from the surrounding villages of the district, about 60 km from Nagpur, police exhumed Rachna's body and sent it for post-mortem.
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Police also took into custody a witchcraft practitioner on whose advice the teacher, Raibhan Tembhurne, is said to have sacrificed his daughter Rachna in Kudegaon village. The incident came to light Wednesday.
Yielding to pressure from an irate mob that had gathered from the surrounding villages of the district, about 60 km from Nagpur, police exhumed Rachna's body and sent it for post-mortem.
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Weren't we discussing the decline of marathi-medium schools just the other day...
What is the true difference between Culture and Superstitions ? Seriously I wish to know the difference!
Human Sacrifice has been a regular feature in India since ancient times. So Human Sacrifice can it be termed as our Culture or Superstition ?
I never understood till today this strong desire for having a son. Why people want son? I have seen they pray and make offerings to God even today so that they have a son.while giving blessing to a newly married girl they will say "May you have a Son"
Hehe Lokana Dukha Deva Kadun itkya hatta ne magun ghaychi kasli houssss aste nayiiiiiiii :)
I agree with funaholic
I think funaholic you must be knowing the reason well :-)
In olden times Indian parents wanted sons as it was a rigid patriarchal society.
A son was required to set fire to the funeral pyre of the parents to grant them 'mukti'.
Also it was the son who would perform the 'shradh thiti' rites every year.
In addition to this post-freedom generations of Indian parents wanted more than one son... as a sort of safety investment.
They wanted to make sure that at least one would be there who could take care of them in their old age.
A daughter was expected to be married of and move away from her parents home. She was expected to take care of her husbands family (and his father and mother).
Now in the age of nuclear families (son residing aways from family) and with females earning as much as males the hankering has come down a bit, at least in educated well-off families.
If India goes the europe way in having a strong post-retirement social security systems (old age homes and benefits) then possibly female infanticide will come down even further.