Balasore, Feb 26 (PTI) Two persons were held in Odisha's Balasore district on Sunday for allegedly trying to exhume a human body from a graveyard on the advice of a tantrik, police said.

The accused were caught by villagers when they were digging the graveyard in Aruhabad village in Gopalpur police station area.

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One of the accused reached out to a tantrik as his daughter used to remain sick. The tantrik asked him to arrange a human skull for rituals to get rid of the "evil spirit".

The man took the help of a friend, and after getting to know that a person was buried at the graveyard in their village about 11 days ago, they reached there on Saturday night and started digging the ground, police said.

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The two men were caught by the villagers, who handed them to the police.

Sub-divisional police officer Sasanka Sekhar Beura said police have detained them.

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