GORAKHPUR, Aug. 2 -- Police in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria on Saturday arrested four individuals for their involvement in the murder of a nine-year-old boy on April 16 this year as part of an alleged sacrificial ritual at Deoria's Patkhauli village to 'cure ailments of one of the accused', said circle officer, Barhaj town, Anshuman Srivastava.

As per the police, the victim Arush Gaur, a Class 2 student, went missing on April 16 evening while playing and the matter was reported to the police the next day. The subsequent probe led to the arrest of Inderjeet (a police constable posted in Gonda), Rama Shankar (his maternal uncle), Bheem Gaur and Jai Prakash, all residents of Patkhauli village under Bhulawani police station limits.

Inderjeet, bel...