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

The victims were identified as Babu Lal Oraon, 50, his mother Kanto Devi, 70, and his wife and two adult children. The lone ...

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

The incident took place in Tetgama village under Mufassil police station, barely 15 km from Purnia town. The village is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...