India, Nov. 14 -- An eight-year-old girl was allegedly strangled to death by three of her relatives as part of a human sacrifice ritual on Kali Puja in Jharkhand's Chatra district, police said on November 14, Saturday. Three people, including the victim's aunt, have been arrested in connection with the murder.

According to Chatra Superintendent of Police Animesh Naithany, the girl went missing on November 8. After failing to trace her, her mother lodged a missing person's complaint at Pratappur police station on November 11. Her body was recovered from a paddy field around 150 metres from her house on November 13.

Police said the investigation revealed that the murder was allegedly motivated by superstition, with the accused purportedly...