A STUDENT of class 2 was killed in an alleged “sacrificial ritual” performed by the owners of his school in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras to make it more “prosperous,” police said on Friday. Besides the owner and director of the school, the principal and two teachers were also arrested for their alleged involvement in the killing on Monday, they said. Police said the postmortem report of the class two student revealed that he was strangled. DL Public School owner Jasodhan Singh, who is said to believe in ‘tantrik rituals,’ asked his son Dinesh Baghel, the director of the school, to sacrifice a child for the “prosperity” of the school and his family.

 

Principal Laxman Singh and two teachers - Ramprakash Solanki and Veerpal Singh - have also been held by police. Police has lodged an FIR against them under the Section 103 (1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 against five of them and they have been sent to jail. “The student has been identified as Kritarth studying in class 2 of DL Public school,” Ashok Kumar Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Hathras, told PTI. “On September 23, the student was abducted from the school’s hostel by teacher Ramprakash Solanki, Dinesh Baghel and school owner Jasodhan Singh.