INDORE: Six persons, including an elderly woman, were arrested on Friday for beating to death a tantric after the latter allegedly failed to find hidden wealth using his witchcraft in Mitra Bandhu Nagar here.The tantric, Gopal Rana, 45, was found dead at the house of one Ashok Shrivastava, when a team of Kanadia police raided it following a tip-off on late Thursday night.The accused were attempting to dispose of the body after transporting it in a vehicle, when the police reached the scene of crime, Kanadia police station in-charge Jagdish Goyal told TOI.Gopal was hired by the accused to perform tantric rituals in the house and lead to hidden wealth in the premises. But, when the rituals did not yield anything, the accused beat him up with sticks, killing him on the spot, he said.Gopal’s body was found in the rear room of the house when the police team reached the crime scene. One Veena Sisodia, 71, who was the first to be seen at the house, tried to lead the police on a wild goose chase by claiming that the deceased was her acquaintance, Vikram Dholia, had come to visit her and had passed away.Police traced the deceased to be a resident of Deendayal Nagar in Dewas and summoned his relatives. “Gopal’s family claimed that he roamed around different cities claiming to practice witchcraft. He duped people of money by promising to lead them to hidden wealth,” Goyal said.He came in contact with Veena, who along with others held the rituals at the house of one Shrivastava, where Gopal claimed gold was hidden under the earth.Gopal was killed early on Thursday, but the accused spent the entire day trying to dispose of the body.Police have arrested Veena, Ankit Devda (28), Prahlad Devda (30), Jay Singh (50), Omprakash Chouhan (39) and Ghanshyam alias Raju Chhabra (48) and charged them with murder.