Order for the arrest of the Hindu priest who had demanded sacrificing five underage daughters of a Hindu couple was issued on Monday. The Mirpurkhas District Management has also ordered protection for Sawai Bheel, his wife and their minor daughters. Mirpurkhas District Police Officer Riaz Ahmad Soomro has ordered the town police for immediately arresting the Hindu priest, namely Kheto Bheel, for demanding sacrifice of Sawai Bheel’s minor daughters to please his goddess, so a male offspring could be born in the house. Town Station House Officer Ameen Mari told this scribe that he had carried out raids for arresting the priest, but he managed to escape. Mari has assured the family that the priest would be arrested shortly.
It is pertinent to mention here that Sawai Bheel and his wife, residents of Siyal Colony, have five daughters aged between five and 10 years but no son, so some of their relatives had asked them to see a priest who could treat them through religious rituals so that the wife could bear a male child. Kheto Bheel had stayed at Sawai Bheel’s house for three days and then told the couple that their daughters need to be sacrificed. The couple refused, but the priest was adamant about the sacrifice.
