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.

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

The suspicion that the family was practising occult rituals grew so strong among the villagers that it drove them to brutally ...

Police in eastern India have arrested six men accused of battering a woman and her four young children to death and dumping the bodies down a village well because they suspected she was a witch ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI— Five women were killed in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand by a mob that accused them of practicing witchcraft, police said Saturday.