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 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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.