Six to die for fertility rite sacrifice of baby
Tuesday, May 2, 2000 INDIA JONATHAN STOCK in New Delhi
http://www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleI
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Six people have been sentenced to death after a court in
Delhi found them guilty of sacrificing a young child as
part of a horrific ritual to help one of them conceive.
Additional Sessions Judge R. S. Verma described the case,
which had taken more than 13 years to come to court, as
"the rarest of the rare".
Eighteen-month-old Kavita was "offered" to a Hindu goddess
in 1987 after "corrosive oil" had been applied to different
parts of her body and then ignited. The child died of
multiple burns and was dumped in a water tank. Judge Verma
concluded in a 24-page judgment that one of the accused,
Shakila, had gone to a local "tantrik", or witch doctor,
and asked him to help her daughter, Chaman, conceive.
The tantrik advised the mother to kidnap a child and
sacrifice it during Dusshera, a 10-day Hindu festival
associated with the vanquishing of demons.
Kavita was seized from her home in Sultanpuri, West Delhi,
on the evening of October 2, the beginning of Dusshera, and
taken to Shakila's house in the same neighbourhood.
Three men helped Shakila and Chaman perform the gruesome
ritual, which was witnessed by a neighbour. His evidence
proved crucial in establishing the premeditated nature of
the killing.
Sentencing the accused, the judge said: "The murder of
this baby was committed by the convicts in a cold-blooded
and brutal manner and was without provocation.
"Kavita had done no harm to any of the accused and was a
child of tender age who could have survived to enjoy the
fruits of a long life," he said. The six accused were also
sentenced to life imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and
seven years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping. The
death sentence will only be carried out if it is confirmed
by the Delhi High Court.
Child sacrifice still occurs in remote parts of India,
usually at the behest of childless women.
Most tantriks, who charge up to 5,000 rupees (HK$875) for
advice, recommend that the sacrifice be made to Kali, a
female deity also known as Durga, who is worshipped at
Dusshera.
Police and doctors in the central state of Uttar Pradesh
have been accused in the past of taking money from tantriks
in return for recording the deaths as murder rather than
sacrifice.
It is not known if Chaman conceived.
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