Bhubaneswar : A court in Odisha on Tuesday awarded the death sentence to a self-proclaimed godman for sacrificing a minor boy to a deity. The godman Pitamber Gaiper made the human sacrifice on February 11, 2010.
The district and sessions court in the state’s Jajpur district pronounced the death sentence on Gaipei after examining 22 witnesses and studying their depositions, IANS reported. “The court awarded death sentence to the godman describing the crime as ‘rarest of rare’,” said public prosecutor Kishore Kar. He said the godman was arrested on February 18, 2010 after he was found offering the child’s blood to women and telling them that drinking it would make them immortal.
