2 years, 11 months ago
Woman Branded Witch and Set Alight in Jharkhand, Cops Take Her to Hospital
News 18Close on heels of a lynching incident in Jharkhand’s Simdega district, a 60-year-old woman was set on fire by locals at a village here on the suspicion that she practised witchcraft, a police officer said on Thursday. Jharya Devi had gone to a relative’s place at Kudpani Deepatoli in Thethaitangar police station area of the district to attend a funeral ceremony when some of the villagers attacked her. Some of the funeral ceremony attendees informed the police, following which Jharya Devi was rescued and taken to Sadar Hospital. Last week, a 32-year-old man was stoned to death and his body set on fire by a mob near Besrajara Bazar in Kolebira police station area.
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