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 ...

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 ...

The convicts on death row had brutally murdered three, including two women, suspecting them to practice witchcraft during the evening hours of 9 September 2016 under Puttasing police station in ...

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 ...

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.

Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women on Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.

Even as India modernizes, witchcraft accusations are common, leading to the murders of more than 2,000 people, mostly women, in the last 15 years. One woman, Birubala Rabha, in the country’s ...