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A court in Bankura district (West Bengal) sentenced to death an occultist, who beheaded a baby and drank its blood as a ritual two-years ago.
Describing it as a rarest of the rare case, the fast track court of Sulagna Dastidar (Chhataraj) held the occultist Lakhikanta Karmakar guilty and awarded him capital punishment.

(Sources: PTI, 04/02/2014)

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