In a shocking incident, an 11-year-old boy identified as Kritarth Kushwaha student at DL Public School in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras was brutally murdered in a black magic ritual allegedly orchestrated by the school’s owner and staff to bring success to the initiation, police said on Friday.

According to the police statement, the class 2 student was abducted from the school hostel by the school’s owner Jasodhan Singh, his son Dinesh Baghel alias Bhagat (school manager) and three teachers Ramprakash Solanki, Veerpal Singh, and Laxman Singh. The accused took the boy to a secluded location and killed him as part of a ‘Tantrik ritual’ which the police described as a human ‘sacrifice’.