{"id":4114,"date":"2004-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/09\/2004-04-09-police-clueless-about-killing-of-sadhus-and-priests\/"},"modified":"2004-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-09-police-clueless-about-killing-of-sadhus-and-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/09\/2004-04-09-police-clueless-about-killing-of-sadhus-and-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Clueless About Killing of Sadhus and Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/595808.cms\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LUCKNOW, INDIA, APRIL 2, 2004: Eighteen sadhus and priests have been brutally murdered in and around Jaunpur district in Northern India in the last twelve months, triggering panic among the priests inhabiting the 300-odd temples in the region. While the body count continues to rise, the police remain clueless when the first priest was killed over a year ago. No one knows why they are being targeted. One theory suggests this as the handiwork of a maniac on the prowl. Another is the element of superstition vesting with a particular criminal tribe which believes that if their baton (branch of a tree which they use as a club) is smeared with a holy man&#8217;s blood it brings them &#8220;good luck&#8221; in future acts of crime. The police, however, have dismissed this insinuation as folklore. The say that &#8220;in two cases the culprits were arrested and booty recovered, establishing that robbery was the sole motive behind the killings.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLUCKNOW, INDIA, APRIL 2, 2004: Eighteen sadhus and priests have been brutally murdered in and around Jaunpur district in Northern,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}