Bankura, 3 February: The Fast Track Court in Bankura today ordered execution of a Sadhu convicted for killing a newborn baby and offering the body a deity in 2012.

Lakhikanta Karmakar ~ the Sadhu of Kolakuri village in the Saltora Police Station area here was caught by the villagers while he was seen offering the beheaded body of a newborn baby to the deity, Kali, in the village burning ghat on 29 January 2012. He was roughed up and later was rescued by police. Police, after taking into custody brought charges of murder and concealing of evidence under sections 302 & 201 of the IPC. According to Mr Arun Chatterjee, APP, Bankura Court: “He had killed the baby as part of a sacrificial ritual, which is highly objectionable.” Today, Lakhikanta was produced before the ADJ (Fast Track), Mrs Sulagna Dastidar Chattaraj.

She ordered execution and seven years of rigorous term for the sadhu. SNS