Human sacrifice: Worker accuses granite quarry owners

Mallampatti: Legal Commissioner U Sagayam ordered the exhumation of the bodies. He was appointed by the High Court for the investigation of illegal granite mining in Madurai.

According to DNA web desk findings, a graveyard in Mallampatti village near Melur, Madurai is gathering crowd including authorities concerned and multitude from the village as four corpses were dug up on Sunday. M Sevakodiyon, who was reported to be a driver at PRP Granites, claimed that the owners of PRP performed a human sacrifice.

According to The Hindu report, the quarry owners sacrificed two mentally-challenged persons in 1999 and buried them there. The police recovered the bones with clothes draped around them and sent them to forensics. However, it is yet to be officially determined whether it is human sacrifice, the cops claimed.