A COUPLE in India adopted an infant from a poor family with the intention of performing a human sacrifice, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The man, identified only as Imran, and his wife obtained the child without any legal paperwork from an immigrant couple a few months ago.
Imran and his wife, who live in Bengaluru city in India’s southern Karnataka state, also reportedly prepared a fake certificate for the baby.
A few nights ago, an anonymous caller tipped off a children’s emergency service about the couple’s plan to carry out a human sacrifice on the night of the full moon on Saturday.
Authorities raided the couple’s house and found that they had dug a small hole in the ground to bury the baby and arranged ceremonial materials around the spot.
The one-year-old baby was rescued and the couple were arrested.
During questioning, the couple had apparently said the human sacrifice was meant to unearth treasures.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
