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India – Women Beaten in Witchcraft Accusations
July
29, 2015 – India - In the village of Madhepura VDC-6, in Saptari Two
women Maya Devi Mandal, 60, and her 26-year-old daughter-in-law Rita Devi
Mandal were beaten black and blue on the charge of practicing witchcraft.
According to their neighbor, " Ram Prasad Mandal and his family members
attacked Mandals with sticks and blows accusing of crafting
witchcraft against their family. "
Currently the victim are receiving treatments at Gajendra Narayan Singh
Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital in Rajbiraj.
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India
- 5 Women Accused of Being Witches Beaten to Death
Indian
police talk to villagers after five women were killed as they accused of
practicing witchcraft
August
8th, 2015 | By Hari Kumar Shrestha
PATNA, India (AP) — Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to
death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming
them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.
Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women
out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron rods, said Arun Kumar
Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital.
The attackers blamed the women for several accidents and
misfortunes suffered by villagers, including the death of an infant in Kinjia
earlier in the week, Singh said.
Police have arrested around 50 people involved in the attack,
Singh said. A large number of police officers have been deployed in the village
to prevent any outbreak of violence.
Jharkhand’s top elected official, Chief Minister Raghubar Das,
condemned the incident. “In the age of knowledge, this incident is sorrowful.
Society should ponder over it,” he said in a statement.
Superstitious beliefs persist in many parts of India and have been
behind similar attacks on women in Jharkhand. From 2000 to 2012, around 2,100
people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of practicing
witchcraft, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
Kinjia is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Ranchi.
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http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/neighbours-beat-woman-for-practising-witchcraft/
Nepal - Neighbours Beat Woman for ‘Practising Witchcraft’
Nepal | July
5, 2015 - JANAKPURDHAM: A woman was thrashed indiscriminately for
‘practising witchcraft’ at Dhireshwornath Municipality in Dhanusha yesterday
night.
Local Kari Chaudhary, 50, Prahlad
Chaudhary, 24, Sangita Chaudhary and Chanda Devi Chaudhary thrashed Sibo Devi
Mahara, 50, of the municipality. They had thrashed the woman on the road while
she was returning home from a paddy field.
The Chaudhary family is said to be
Mahara’s neighbours. They accused her of casting black spell on Sarita
Chaudhary. Some of the villagers had informed police after the Chaudhary family
tried feed Mahara human feces. Mahara was critically injured in the incident
and has been receiving treatment at Janakpur Zonal Hospital. “The Chaudhary
family kicked and punched me arbitrarily,” she said in tears, adding that
police were yet to arrest the culprits.
According to locals, Kari Chaudhary’s
daughter Sarita had married a person at Jahadi in Siraha one year ago. Sarita
had informed her mother’s side of the family that Mahara cast black spell on
her after her marriage.
Local Durga Pandit said that the
Chaudhary family had planned to thrash Mahara based on Sarita’s accusations.
The victim had filed a case at Area
Police Office, Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar immediately after the incident. “But
police are yet to arrest and take action against the culprits,” said Mahara.
ASI Netra Karki said police were searching for the perpetrators. “Investigation is underway,” said Karki.