Mob Lynch Women Over Witchcraft Allegations

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6HZZmyar1LcNfj29d2HrglGajRB8gD6rA6MIzGieQrAaQjc28VTLy3nVLHHqVxssrZ7RmyAO8e2p7nC3VXoVYGG4Y6dRToMxOSQ7a4-R5sjj5v-Jte5BtzsSBWQiaSUEVwwUALygHgnJ/s1600/Indian+Witch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6HZZmyar1LcNfj29d2HrglGajRB8gD6rA6MIzGieQrAaQjc28VTLy3nVLHHqVxssrZ7RmyAO8e2p7nC3VXoVYGG4Y6dRToMxOSQ7a4-R5sjj5v-Jte5BtzsSBWQiaSUEVwwUALygHgnJ/s1600/Indian+Witch.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>JHARKHAND, INDIA - Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police have said.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Police in eastern Jharkhand state said on Saturday that a group of assailants dragged the women out of their huts and beat them to death at around midnight on Friday in their village, some 30km from state capital, Ranchi.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "A group (of villagers) dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practising witchcraft," Ranchi deputy police chief Arun Kumar Singh told AFP news agency by phone.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At least 21 villagers have been arrested over the killings of the women, who were mostly aged between 45 and 50.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Aishwarya Devi named four other women. Some of the villagers beat those five women to death. So far, we have arrested 21 people in the case," said Singh.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In yet another barbaric incident related to superstition in the tribal state, the villages alleged that those five women had killed a boy through their black magic, <b><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/women-accused-witchcraft-lynched-india-mob-150808111054841.html">Al Jazeera</a></b> reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "A boy died in the village a week ago. Allegation was leveled against a woman that she killed the boy through witchcraft," Singh said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Belief in witchcraft and the occult remains widespread in some parts of India.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In some cases women are stripped naked as punishment, burnt alive or driven from their homes and killed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Some states including Jharkhand have introduced special laws to try to curb crimes against people accused of witchcraft.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das condemned the latest killings in a statement on Saturday, urging society to "ponder over it".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "In the age of knowledge, this incident is sorrowful".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The province accounted for 54 out of 160 barbaric cases where women were condemned to be witches and killed in 2013 and a total of 400 women have been murdered since 2001 in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The National Crime Records Bureau has recorded 2,097 such killings between 2000 and 2012 in India.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? 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Mob Lynch Women Over Witchcraft Allegations

JHARKHAND, INDIA - Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police...

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