{"id":54089,"date":"2023-04-05T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/indian-police-arrest-five-men-accused-of-human-sacrifice"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:57:50","slug":"five-arrested-over-human-sacrifice-at-indian-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54089","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested over human sacrifice at Indian temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests follow discovery four years ago of woman\u2019s headless body at Hindu temple in Guwahati<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of a woman\u2019s headless body at a Hindu temple left officers baffled.<\/p>\n<p>Shanti Shaw, 64, was killed and decapitated with a machete in 2019 after visiting the temple in Guwahati, a city in India\u2019s remote north-east.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/indian-police-arrest-five-men-accused-of-human-sacrifice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests follow discovery four years ago of woman\u2019s headless body at Hindu temple in GuwahatiIndian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of a woman\u2019s headless body at a Hindu temple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54089\/revisions\/54090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}