{"id":980,"date":"2001-07-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/08\/2001-07-08-men-who-sacrificed-child-in-india-get-death-sentence\/"},"modified":"2001-07-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-08T12:00:00","slug":"2001-07-08-men-who-sacrificed-child-in-india-get-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/08\/2001-07-08-men-who-sacrificed-child-in-india-get-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Who Sacrificed Child in India Get Death Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-India-Child-Sacrifice.html \">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, July 6, 2001: An Indian appeals court has upheld the death sentences of four people convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy as a religious sacrifice. Ranjit Mohanty was kidnapped from his parents&#8217; home near the Orissa state capital of Bhubaneshwar, and murdered in 1997. His killers allegedly confessed during questioning by police. &#8220;This type of heinous crime can only be checked through a heavy punishment like the death penalty,&#8221; High Court Justices B.P. Das and M. Pappana said Thursday. The defendants &#8212; Kalpana Majumdar, Narayan Majumdar, Kunja Rabana and Subhash Chandra Panda &#8212; allegedly told police they killed the boy after a person who practices black magic told them they would be divinely rewarded with gold. The four defendants were sentenced to death by Judge Ananta Charan Patnaik in July.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, July 6, 2001: An Indian appeals court has upheld the death sentences of four people,&#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-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}