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

This paper analyses violence against Dalit women with specific reference to witch-hunting. It explores the caste hierarchy, motives behind such crimes, also the failure of legal mechanisms and ...

Purnia District Magistrate Anshul Kumar said a case has been registered against 23 accused. Main accused is already in police ...

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

Patna: Taking strong note of the recent horrifying incident in Purnia district, where five members of a family were burnt alive over witchcraft accusa.

A shocking incident in Bihar's Purnia district sees five family members killed in suspected witchcraft-related violence.

Bihar's 'Witch Hunts' Target Women In Leadership Roles, Married Women Voices of 145 women accused of witchcraft in Bihar, 25 years since it enacted a law against witch hunting, speak of the ...

BJP government of worsening law and order, labeling the state as a 'crime capital.' Recent violence, including businessman ...

This Commission is of the prima facie view that it is not sufficient to deal with such incidents of killing and violence leading to death on suspicion of practising 'witchcraft'." ...

Five family members were brutally lynched and burnt by a mob over witchcraft allegations in Purnea district, Bihar. The horrific incident has sparked a major police investigation.

Despite legal interventions, witch-hunting remains a grim reality in parts of India, targeting marginalised women In 2014, Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group working on ...