Rudal Sah; deaf and mute pandit beheaded [ Bihar , India ]

[ Reported as seen]

On 9 August, 2022, a priest of a Ram Janaki temple, Rudal Sah was brutally murdered in Bettiah, Bihar. The murderers severed his head and placed it in the nearby Pipra Kali temple. The incident took place at  Ram Janaki temple in Bakulhar village, Bettiah.

The priest  used to sleep in the temple at night, and like every night. On the night of 9^th August, after completing daily rituals he closed the doors and windows and slept inside. However, the miscreants entered the temple by calling a wall in the night and killed him.

Reportedly, the miscreants  separated the head of the priest and carried it to the Pipra Kali temple looked after by the Jaitiya Panchayat. The Kali temple is around 2 km away from the Ram Janaki temple.

The next morning when  the devotees entered both the temples for morning prayers, they saw the body and the severed head at the respective temples. The murderer left behind a slipper in the temple premises.

Rudal Sah was a resident of Bakulhar village and had been working as a priest at the Ram Janaki temple in the village for 40 years. According to the villagers, the priest Rudal Sah was deaf and mute. He has 2 sons and a daughter.