Tag: Iron Branding

Keonjhar: A one-year-old girl child was admitted to the Keonjhar district headquarters hospital in a critical condition after she was branded with hot iron to cure stomach ache. Two weeks back, the girl child of Dulari Patra, a resident of Uttam Singh Haating started suffering from stomach ache. Later, acting as per the advice from […]

In the latest incident of its kind in a series of such cases in this tribal dominated district over the last few weeks, a two-month old was branded with hot iron at Khuntiaguda village under Tentulikhunti block of the district. A woman quack was arrested after the matter came to fore

Bhubaneswar: As many as 20 children were branded with hot iron as a ritualistic tradition on the occasion of ‘Chitalagi Amabasya’ at Bheemasahi village under Papadahandi block of Nabarangpur district. According to sources, as per the tradition several families of the village branded their children with hot iron on the occasion of the Chitalagi Amabasya […]