Police have arrested a shaman who sacrificed the two-and-half-year old son of Shatrughan Sah of Mithila municipality 6, Dhanusha.
The body of Samir Sah (Aryan), who went missing on May 6, was recovered from the kitchen garden of Krishna Nandan Mahato, a local, the next morning.
Shatrughan Mahato, 55, who was learning sorcery, has been arrested on the basis of statements taken from 65 locals by Dhanusha Police, Province Police and a police unit sent from Kathmandu. Mahato has conceded that he sacrificed the boy to achieve enlightenment.
Chief of Dhanusha Police Shekhar Khanal said Mahato murdered the boy in superstition that he will become powerful after sacrificing the kid.
Police made the shaman public organizing a press conference three weeks after the murder.
Mahato had abducted the boy from his home when the kid's mother Renu Devi had gone to fetch fodder in the evening. Mahato hid the boy inside his house and sacrificed the kid slitting the throat with a sharp weapon in the name of gods and goddesses.
He had then disposed the body in the kitchen garden of Krishna Nandan.
SP Khanal said other members of Mahato's family had gone for treatment that day and Mahato sacrificed the boy capitalizing on the fact that no one else was in the house.
Shaman Mahato, who lives just 100 meters away from the boy's house, had even treated the boy when he was ill.
The boy's father is abroad for employment.
