RANCHI, April 2 -- A 35-year-old woman was arrested along with two others for allegedly killing her 13-year-old daughter in a 'sacrificial' ritual in Kushumbha village under Bishungarh police station of Hazaribagh district, officials said on Thursday.

Those arrested include victims' mother Reshmi Devi, 55-year-old Shanti Devi, an occultist, and 40-year-old Bhim Ram, all of them from the same village.

The matter concerns the recovery of the girl's mutilated body from a village field on March 25. Reshmi had subsequently registered a case with Bishungarh police station alleging that the girl might have been raped before being killed. The girl allegedly went missing when she went to see Ram Navami procession a night before.

Following the w...