Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...

New Delhi — Police have arrested three people suspected of brutally murdering five members of a family who were accused of ...

The family were reportedly beaten and burned to death, transported via tractor and buried in a pond after a mob of more than 50 villagers attacked the family home in Tetgama village.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo moto cognizance of a media report revealing the gruesome murder of five members of a Scheduled Tribe family in Purnia district of Bihar. The ...

Five family members in Bihar's Purnia district were brutally beaten and burned alive over witchcraft allegations, prompting a ...

It was an exceptional case and she was able to return to her village. Limited Legal Framework. Only a handful of India’s 28 states, like Jharkhand and Bihar, have a law against witch-hunting. "The ...

A woman and her four children have allegedly been beaten to death by a gang of men who believed she was a witch. According to the BBC, the murders occured in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on ...

India must do more to tackle the practice of witch-branding among tribal communities, activists said on Monday following the murder of five women accused of sorcery. Skip to main content ...

In a shocking case from Surajpur, Chhattisgarh, a 65-year-old woman branded as a witch was brutally murdered by four relatives. The suspects tried to disguise the murder as a suicide.

A 45-year-old Adivasi woman was killed by a mob who suspected her of practicing witchcraft in Assam. The police suspect the woman was first killed and then her body was hanged from a tree.

Taking to X, Kharge highlighted the rising crime in the state, noting yesterday's Purnia witchcraft murder case and the ...