Kerala Human Sacrifice: Two women killed, accused ate victim’s flesh

Kerala Human Sacrifice: Two women killed, accused ate victim’s flesh

Last Updated Oct - 12 - 2022, 11:36 PM | Source : FELA News

The two women were killed in two separate instances of ‘human sacrifice’ by the three accused. The accused couple was told by the prime accused, Muhammand Shafi

Kerala: In a shocking revelation of the suspicious case of ‘human sacrifice’ from Kerala, two women were allegedly killed and their body parts were chopped as part of black magic in Elanthoor village of Pathanamthitta district. The two women were killed in two separate instances of ‘human sacrifice’ by the three accused.

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The bodies of the two women were chopped into pieces, breasts set aside for 'safety', and knife inserted in their private parts.

Three people, including a couple, were arrested in this connection with the matter. The arrested persons were identified as Bhagaval Singh, a local massage therapist and a ‘traditional healer’, his wife Laila (59), both natives of Pathanamthitta; and Rasheed alias Muhammand Shafi, reportedly an ‘occult practitioner’ and is said to be the mastermind in the case.

Confirming his modus operandi, Kochi City Police Commissioner H Nagaraju on Tuesday said that Shafi had in 2020 brutally raped a 75-year-old woman and made wounds in her private parts with a knife.

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“He had been using a fake Facebook account wherein he had offered to help people facing financial problems. That’s how he befriended Bhagaval Singh, and his wife Laila. It took three years for him to win their confidence and trap them after which the crime took place,” said Nagaraju to News18.

The two deceased, said to be around 50, had earned their daily bread selling lottery tickets on the streets, and were sacrificed by the accused to settle the financial issues of the couple and bring prosperity in their life, police said. While one victim was reported missing in September, another went missing in June and it was only after the investigation into the former’s case the police learnt of the ‘human sacrifice’ angle.

The chopped body parts of the deceased were exhumed from the premises of the couple’s house at the village in Pathanamthitta on Tuesday. Sources familiar with the probe said that the accused couple was told by the prime accused, Shafi, that eating cooked human body parts would help them preserve their youth.

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As per reports, Laila had said in her statement that Shafi made the couple cook the flesh from the bodies of the two women they had killed.

There are also reports that Shafi even had sex with Laila in front of her husband Bhagaval Singh, after convincing them that it was part of the ritual. He used to witness this act with folded hands as if in prayer, the reports added.

The Puthencruz police in Kochi registered the first information report (FIR) in the case on 3 August 2020 and filed the charge sheet on 17 October in the case.

“We have found out that the same places were injured in the two women who were murdered apparently as human sacrifice,” he added.

The mastermind in the Elanthoor double ‘human sacrifice’ case Mohammed Shafi had a bizarre obsession. He would injure the victims in the private parts and get excited at the sight of blood rushing out of the wounds of his victims before killing them as a ‘human sacrifice’.

The three accused were remanded to judicial custody till October 26 by the Ernakulam District Sessions court on Wednesday. 

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