New Delhi — Police have arrested three people suspected of brutally murdering five members of a family who were accused of ...

Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...

Activists and journalists say the number is much higher, because most states don’t list witchcraft as a motive of murder. Witch hunts primarily target women and exploit India’s caste system ...

Six men in India have been arrested for killing a woman and her four children, including a 10-month-old baby, over suspicion that she was a witch who killed a girl. Police said the villagers ...

Indian family of five beaten to death on ... around 2,100 such murders took place in the country between 2001 and 2012. In 2020 alone, at least 15 women were murdered on suspicion of witchcraft.

India News: For those who think witch-hunts are a thing of the past in India, here is the stark reality.Witchcraft was the motive cited for as many as 127 murders ...

A woman and her four children have allegedly been beaten to death by a gang of men who believed she was a witch. According to the BBC, the murders occured in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on ...

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, there were 134 cases of murders linked to witch hunts in 2016.

Witch-hunts proved to be baseless during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, but the historical ruling is considered without merit to the present-day angry mobs in India. A crowd of 200 people took par… ...

Around 160 murders linked to witchcraft are recorded in 2014 across 13 of India's states, 32 of them in Orissa, according to the latest government figures Open navigation South & Central Asia RAPPLER ...

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, ...