Even as Union MoS for HRD Sanjay Paswan recommends that the practices of ojhas or witch doctors be included in the school curriculum, a five-year-old in his neighbouring constituency was sacrificed by a tantrik. Police have arrested the ojha and are looking for four of his associates.The body of the child, with ears, tongue, nose and fingers chopped, was found on Friday in Ghuran Bigha village in Aurangabad. The district borders Paswan’s constituency of Nawada, where the minister had met ojhas last November. Aurangabad SP Ramulu Naik said Ramashrees Chauhan used to work in a brick kiln and suggested to the owner that a human sacrifice was necessary to ensure that the bricks bake properly.
