HUMAN SACRIFICE
Indian Youth Killed on Altar (Eeceived 14, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13. T'he Times Delhi correspondent says that the sacrifise of a 17-year-old youth to propitiate the Rain God led to the trial for manslaughter of 25' men, including a priest and village headman, in Sirmoor. ^ Witnesses allege that the villagers exhibited the chained youth in a procession and announced with beats of a drum that he Was goiiig to be sacrificed, after which he ^as beheaded on a sacriiicial altar amid devotional songs. Later the police found a human head at the foot of an idol in the village ' templo.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 5
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