SAMBHALl: In another barbaric case of human sacrifice , a 25-year-old man has been arrested for beheading his own one-and-a-half-year-old daughter on the advice of a tantrik who promised to cure him of his ailment. The incident occurred in Narauli village under Banether police station in Sabhal district on Friday night.According to police officials, the accused, Kalyan Singh , took out his daughter who was sleeping with his mother and used a kitchen knife to behead her in another room. He fled the spot soon after the incident. Later, when the woman woke up in the middle of the night to feed her daughter, she could not find her. She searched the house and found her lying in a pool of blood in the adjoining room. On hearing her shrieks, neighbours reached the post and called the police.Banether station house officer Praveen Kaushik said, “Police teams were formed to search for the accused who was arrested on Saturday morning. We also recovered the kitchen knife used in the murder of the infant. During interrogation, Kalyan Singh revealed he was suffering from some ailment and got in contact with a tantrik who told him to sacrifice his daughter if he wanted to become healthy. We are on the lookout for the tantrik too.”According to the police officials, the accused got married four years ago and the couple has another three-year-old daughter.