{"id":39976,"date":"2015-11-20T20:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=39976"},"modified":"2015-11-21T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:05:13","slug":"orissa-hc-acquits-tantrik-facing-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/orissa-hc-acquits-tantrik-facing-death-penalty","title":{"rendered":"Orissa HC acquits &#8221;tantrik&#8221; facing death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37372\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/government-to-soon-appoint-more-law-officers\/law-7\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"law\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;law&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37372 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?resize=275%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Orissa HC acquits ''tantrik'' facing death penalty\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orissa HC acquits &#8221;tantrik&#8221; facing death penalty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Setting aside death penalty awarded by a district court, the Orissa High Court acquitted a tantrik of Jajpur district who was charged with human sacrifice of an eight-year-old boy five years back.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Vinod Prasad and Justice Raghubir Dash yesterday quashed Jajpur the district session court s death sentence and upheld the appeal of the &#8216;tantrik&#8217; Pitambar Goipoi of innocence setting him free of murder and other related charges.<\/p>\n<p>The bench annulled the lower court s verdict on the ground there was lack of clinching evidence in the case.<\/p>\n<p>District judge Jivan Ballav had in August this year convicted the tantrik of abduction and murder of infant Srikant Bag and sentenced him to death.<\/p>\n<p>Sukinda police had retrieved the beheaded body of Srikant from a deserted place in Damodarpur village on February 13, 2010, two days after he went missing.<\/p>\n<p>Police subsequently recovered the infant s head along with some puja materials from a deserted place near the tantrik s house.<\/p>\n<p>On a complaint from the boy s relative that the tantrik had sacrificed the boy to propitiate the local deity and public outrage, police arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside death penalty awarded by a district court, the Orissa High Court acquitted a tantrik of Jajpur district who was charged with human sacrifice of an eight-year-old boy five years back. 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