Man kills daughter as ''human sacrifice'' in Jodhpur

Yash Goyal
Jaipur, June 10 

A man ‘sacrificed’ his 4-year-old daughter in the month of Ramzan in a shocking case of human sacrifice in Pipar city, a municipality in Jodhpur district, on Saturday.

Nawab Ali Quereshi is believed to have confessed to slitting his daughter’s throat after reciting holy verses, Jodhpur Rural Superintendent of Police Rajan Dushyant said on Sunday. 

The 26-year-old suspect lived in Silawaton-ka-mohalla and owned a meat shop. He took his daughter Rizwana to buy her candy on Friday. While his family slept on the terrace of their home, he took his daughter to a room on the ground floor, recited the kalma, slit her throat and returned to the terrace to sleep, the police officer said quoting from the suspect’s supposed confession.  

His wife went looking for her missing daughter, and found her lying motionless on the ground floor. She was taken to a hospital, which declared her “brought dead”.

The suspect initially tried to convince his family that a cat may have killed her, but the allegedly confessed to his crime after he was arrested on his wife’s complaint.

He has been booked for murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.