Tag: Murder Over Witchcraft Suspicion

Keonjhar: The spotlight is back on suspicion & blind belief-related violence in Odisha after two persons were killed at Nekedapali village in Keonjhar district. As similar incidents are frequently being reported from tribal-dominated Keonjhar district, it gives a sense that people are yet to shun such superstitions and blind beliefs which still dominate social practices […]

Baripada: Despite a lot of awareness to shun blind belief & superstitions, several people mostly in rural areas of Odisha are yet to break the shackles of such evil practices. In a brutal outcome of such retrograde behaviour, a man allegedly killed a woman of his village and later walked into police station with the […]