3-year-old entombed boy rescued

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">Romana Albel Singh (Faridkot): "Sorcerer" Sukhbir Singh said there was nothing else he could have done. Some time back, he had received divine intimation that if he kept his three-yearold son in an underground enclosure at his dera, the boy would attain immortality.<br /><br />Under intense family watch lest he tried to surface and chanting mantras, little Mantar stayed in a cramped pen for almost a month till villagers became suspicious when Sukhbir Singh began speaking incoherently about his intimations of immortality.<br /><br />On Thursday, Priyank Bharti, Jaitu SDM, led a police team in rescuing the child, over eleven years before a miracle was to allegedly transform the boy.<br /><br />The boy''s parents have been given the custody of the child after a stern warning.No legal action is planned against the father keeping in view the child''s welfare.<br /><br />It was two years ago that Sukhbir Singh, who dabbles in preparing "magic potions", had constructed a dera in Rana Albel Singh.<br /><br />The lure of money and fame "babas" enjoy in rural areas was too tempting. Coincidentally, that was when divine intervention came: "seriously-ill" Mantar had must be kept underground if he was to live, and become immortal, despite his mother''s, quite obvious, mortal protestations.<br /><br />Tarksheel Society, a social organisation, has appealed to the SSP, Faridkot, not to let the sorcerer off so lightly and file a criminal case against his entire family, at least for sanity''s sake.<br /><br /><formid=526372></formid=526372></div> </div>