An 8-year-old minor was murdered by her own parents believing in a superstition that a rope used to commit suicide or murder can be sold at a very large sum of money.21-year-old Kalpana Bika (KC), her 47-year-old father Sobit Bahadur, 39-year-old Siddha Kumar Shahi, and Hari Prashad Bohora were arrested by the police on the charges of murdering 8-year-old Rita Bika. The four accused conspired and murdered the minor after Siddha Kumar said that a rope used for murder or suicide would fetch a large sum of money. The perpetrators murdered the child by strangling her with a rope and buried her in a pitch.