Black Magic: 4 held for digging lemon orchard to excavate hidden treasure in Andhra Pradesh village

In a bizarre another incident of superstition surfaced in Southern India the Andhra Pradesh police have arrested four men for allegedly practicing black magic in the Musunuru Mandal of the Nuziveedu constituencyThese four persons were caught practising occult worship and black magic at midnight for excavating hidden treasures in Pedapativarigudem village Sub Inspector SI Kutumba Rao informedThe incident is reported from the suburb of the Gopavaram village in Musunuru MandalOne of the farmers in this village Boda Rajesh was seen performing an occult puja and excavation in his lemon grove on Friday midnight to obtain treasuresThe villagers said that all four persons were together in the lemon orchard and when they tried to get a hold of them while Boda Rajesh was digging they allegedly escaped their catchThe villagers have demanded strict action against those practising black magic occult worship and digging for hidden treasuresAlso Read Kannada actor Chetan booked for hurting religious sentimentsThe case has come days after the Kerala police have been investigating the Kerala human sacrifice case where two women were brutally killed in the name of a ritual after being lured for moneyThe process of evidence collection in the Kochi case has almost completed and the police added that they rely on cyber evidence as it was important in this caseThe police remand report of the accused mentions the shocking human sacrifices were suspected to have been committed as part of a ritual to obtain financial benefits where the remains of the two deceased womenidentified as Padma and Roslin were exhumed later from pits near the residence of accused Bhagaval Singh and Laila in the Pathanamthitta districtAccording to police the accused allegedly lured the victims with the promise of money The remand report stated that the accused allegedly chopped up the bodies of the victims before burying themThe police have also seized several phones from the accused The Commissioner also asserted that the main accused used to mutilate the bodies in a butchers styleAs per the reports the police have found 39 grams of gold that belonged to victim Padma mortgaged by Shafi for Rs 1 lakhs out of which he gave Rs 40000 to his wifeAs per the police remand report the accused husbandwife pair of Bhagaval Singh and Laila conspired with the prime accused Muhammed Shafi to commit the crimesOn September 26 Shafi approached the 52yearold Padma who used to sell lottery tickets in Kochi and lured her by offering Rs 15000 for sex work the police remand report readThen she agreed and went with Shafi to the home of Bhagaval Singh and Laila in the Pathanamthitta district There the accused strangled her with a plastic cord around her neck to make her unconscious After that Shafi mutilated Padmas private parts using a knife and slit her throat After that they chopped her into 56 pieces and put the mutilated body parts into buckets and buried them in a pit the report detailedPolice said that it is investigating the possibility of cannibalism that the accused possibly ate the flesh of the victimsKochi Police Commissioner CH Nagaraju addressing a press conference told reporters that Shafi the main accused was a pervert and has a criminal pastThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever