NHRC TAKES NOTE OF
‘PIONEER’ STORY, SEEKS REPORT
Monday, 20 October 2014 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on
Saturday took suo motu cognizance of the very distressing news that a
seven-year-old boy was sacrificed in Balangir on basis of a report published in
The Pioneer and ordered the Balangir district Collector to submit a factual
report within two weeks.
According to the newspaper report, in yet another superstition
driven inhuman act, the child was sacrificed at Jhalapadar village under the
Bangomunda police station in Balangir district on September 26, 2014.
It was further reported that the accused Bankanidhi Behera had
lured the victim boy Dasarath Parabhue to catch a hen, took him away and killed
him as he had been advised by a sorcerer to offer a child to a goddess so that
he did not suffer from further illness. The body of the deceased was found in a
village pond with his tongue sliced.
“The contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious
issue of violation of human rights of the victim child,” observed the NHRC in
its order.
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