Residents of Tigiria block of Cuttack district are in panic after police recovered five human skulls filled in a sack from a dump yard on Tuesday. The skulls were sent for scientific examination.
Some children, who had been playing nearby, saw the bag. They had fear of ghosts and ran away to their village and informed the elders about the skulls.
“Preliminary examinations reveal that the skulls appear to be very old and cracked. All the skulls were lying in an open garbage dump yard at the Jagannath Spinning Mill premises of Nuapatna, which has been shut for over a decade now,” said Tigiria police inspector Sushant Satpathy.
Police claimed that the skulls could have been either used by medical students for academic purpose or by tantriks for practising witchcraft. “We have sent the skulls for forensic examination. Only after getting the scientific report, we will come to any conclusion,” Satpathy said.
Police, however, ruled out any human sacrifices relating to the recovery of the skulls. “We have no such reports in recent memory coming from any of the nearby areas about any mass human sacrifices,” said a senior police officer, who was posted in these areas for a substantial period.