Killing an Indian girl and stealing her liver for use in a 'magic ritual'

 An Indian girl was raped before being murdered and her liver stolen in order to conduct sorcery rituals for a desperate childbearing couple.

"Times Now News" reported that a couple who live in Kanpur district in Uttar Pradesh had asked two men to bring them the livers of a 7-year-old girl in exchange for a financial reward.

According to the Indian police report, the girl was killed on the night of the "Diwali" festival, sacred to Hindus, after her rape, and before cutting her stomach to extract her liver.

Police indicated that the husband, who lives with his wife in a village called Bhadras, had paid his nephew and another man to carry out this task.

The couple, who tied the knot in 1999, believes that eating a girl’s liver will help a woman conceive and give birth, according to a sorcery ritual called "tantra."