Durg (Chhattisgarh): A court here yesterday awarded death penalty to seven people on charges of kidnapping and murdering a two-year-old boy as part of a tantrik ritual
in 2010.
District and Sessions Judge Gautam Chaurariya awarded death sentence to Ishwari Yadav, 42, who claims to be a tantrik, his wife Kiran alias Guru Mata, 35, Mahanand Yadav, 30, Rajendra Mahar, 23, Nihaluddin, 60, Sukhdev Yadav, 35, and Hemant Sahu.
The court verdict came in a case dated November 23, 2010 when the two-year old boy Chirag, son of Poshan Singh, resident of Ruabandha village in Durg district, went missing from his home.
When the boy’s family members searched for him, they came to know that their neighbour, Ishwari Yadav, had
kidnapped him. IANS
