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Villagers in Jharkhand allegedly behead 3 of family for practising witchcraft
By Bedanti Saran | Hindustan Times, Ranchi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 29, 2020 12:57 PM IST
Police have arrested three of the nine suspects from the same village from where the trio went missing on October 7 .
Woman killed over witchcraft suspicion in Odisha, man walks into police station with severed head
By Debabrata Mohanty | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON JUL 16, 2020 08:13 AM IST
On an average, 60 witchcraft-related murders have taken place annually since 2010 across Odisha.
Odisha cops exhume body parts of youth killed over suspicion of witchcraft
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON JUN 08, 2020 12:05 AM IST
The alleged killers had tried to murder two other boys who managed to escape, police said.
Odisha police recovers bodies of tribal couple killed over witchcraft suspicion
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON OCT 09, 2019 07:35 PM IST
The couple’s bodies were tied with heavy stones and dropped off in the waters. They were killed by a group of people with blows of scythe over suspicions of practicing black magic, the police said.
Adivasi man burnt alive after being accused of witchcraft in Andhra’s Vizag
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON SEP 26, 2019 04:33 PM IST
Superstition cost a tribal man his life after a child who was delirious with fever mumbled his name leading her family to suspect that the victim was practising witchcraft.
Man kills uncle, aunt on suspicions of practising witchcraft
By HT Correspondent | Jamshedpur
UPDATED ON AUG 15, 2019 08:40 AM IST
The accused, identified as Shivlal Tudu, has been arrested. Police said Tudu hacked Oping Tudu, 70, and Koki Tudu, 65, to death by sharp weapons.
Tribal family in Odisha accused of witchcraft by relatives, made to put hands in boiling water
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
PUBLISHED ON JUL 09, 2019 03:28 PM IST
Violence over suspicion of witchcraft is on the rise in the state despite the promulgation of the Odisha Prevention of Witch-hunting Act, 2013.
Cops crack ‘witchcraft’ murder in Jharkhand, brother duo arrested
By Manish Raj | Ranchi
UPDATED ON MAR 17, 2019 11:17 AM IST
Sonua police station officer-in-charge, Kuldip Kumar said that the headless body of the victim, Phulmani Devi was found on the railway track at the manned railway crossing between Asantaliya and Baidhmara on the morning of March 3.
Woman accused of witchcraft, thrashed and paraded naked in Ranchi
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Ranchi
PUBLISHED ON FEB 05, 2019 09:24 AM IST
As per police records, Dumka saw 11 witch hunt murders in 2014, along with one incident each in 2016 and 2017. Kalyani Sharan, chairperson of the state women’s commission said that superstition and lack of education resulted in such incidents, mostly in impoverished regions of the state.
Duck autopsy to crack ‘witchcraft’ murder case in Ranchi
By Manish Raj | Hindustan Times, Ranchi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 27, 2018 09:43 AM IST
Police said that in a bid to gain mastery of witchcraft the accused had gone to the extent of consuming human and animal blood. A duck with a severed head along with an injured calf tethered to a wooden post was found near Devi’s body.
Bihar villagers chop off 70-year-old tribal woman’s tongue for practising witchcraft
By Prasun K Mishra | Hindustan Times, Sasaram
UPDATED ON OCT 22, 2018 06:14 PM IST
Tribals constitute only 1.1% of Rohtas district’ population and are deeply mired in superstitious practices. Hundreds of women have been killed in the past few years on suspicion of being witches in the state.
70-year-old woman in Bihar branded witch, tongue chopped off
By Indo Asian News Service | Patna
PUBLISHED ON OCT 22, 2018 11:23 AM IST
Rajkali Devi was attacked in Redia village with traditional weapons and a part of her tongue was cut off leaving her seriously injured, police said.
Accused of witchcraft, tribal man’s fingers cut off in Bengal’s Birbhum
By Koushik Dutta | Hindustan Times, Midnapore
UPDATED ON OCT 11, 2018 10:03 AM IST
According to local residents, headmen of the village branded the man a witch and ordered that he be killed. Subsequently, the punishment was reduced to his fingers being cut off.
Ranchi court sentences 13 to life for 2015 murder of 5 women who allegedly practised witchcraft
By HT Correspondent | Bedanti Saran, Hindustan Times, Ranchi
UPDATED ON AUG 02, 2018 11:12 PM IST
On August 8, 2015, a village mob in Ranchi district had hacked five women to death after branding them witches.
Witchcraft may be behind Kerala family murder: Police
By Press Trust of India | Thiruvananthapuram
PUBLISHED ON AUG 02, 2018 09:08 PM IST
A top police official said Krishnan had been practising witchcraft for the past several years and collecting money from local people promising to bring them luck and rid them of ‘doshas’ (evil-effects).
Mumbaiwale: Can we meet in Mahim? Yes, Wiccan
By Rachel Lopez | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 23, 2018 01:53 PM IST
Spells to repel ex-lovers; potions to attract money; shortages of sage; weird customers. See what’s brewing at Mumbai’s only Wiccan store
Man lynched, wife and daughter beaten up for practising ‘witchcraft’ in Meghalaya
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India, Tura
UPDATED ON APR 17, 2018 07:55 PM IST
A family member of the three brothers was ill for a long time and they suspected that the victims’ black magic was responsible for it.
Man, who claimed to practise witchcraft, convicted of sexually assaulting minor
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India, New Delhi
UPDATED ON APR 15, 2018 11:16 AM IST
A city court held the man guilty of sexually assaulting and inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl after sending her mother out to get some items to be used in treatment of a backache.
