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

The family were reportedly beaten and burned to death, transported via tractor and buried in a pond after a mob of more than 50 villagers attacked the family home in Tetgama village.

Five family members in Bihar's Purnia district were brutally beaten and burned alive over witchcraft allegations, prompting a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sundargarh: Police in Sundargarh district on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly murdering his neighbour over suspicions of witchcraft. The arrest w.

From 2010 to 2021, more than 1,500 people were killed in India after accusations of witchcraft, ... found that the police usually intervened only in cases of murder or attempted murder.

In a shocking case from Surajpur, Chhattisgarh, a 65-year-old woman branded as a witch was brutally murdered by four relatives. The suspects tried to disguise the murder as a suicide.

In a study conducted by State Commission of Women, Odisha and ActionAid Association, a non-governmental organization, it was discovered that 27 percent of witch branding cases are attributed to ...

Experts estimate that roughly 2,500 people have been killed in witch hunts in rural India since 2000. Here is what activists are doing to fight the practice. Skip to main content ...

India recorded a total of 28,522 murder cases in 2022, an average of 78 killings every day or more than three every hour, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).