AMN /
The district and sessions court of Jajpur in Odisha today awarded the death sentence to a self-proclaimed god man for sacrificing a minor boy to a deity. The god man Pitamber Gaipei made the human sacrifice on 17th of February, 2010.
The court pronounced the death sentence on Gaipei after examining 22 witnesses and studying their depositions. Srikant Bag, an eight-year-old boy of Damodarpur village under Sukinda police station in Jajpur district, was murdered by the god man, who offered the boy as a sacrifice to a goddess. Police nabbed Gaipei after investigating the matter following a complaint by the boy’s family.