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

India must do more to tackle the practice of witch-branding among tribal communities, ... There were 54 murders related to witch-branding in Jharkhand in 2013, more than in any other state.

India, has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that five members of a family, belonging to Scheduled Tribe, including three women, were allegedly hacked to death and their bodies were burnt on ...

Police in eastern India have arrested six men accused of battering a woman and her four young children to death and dumping the bodies down a village well because they suspected she was a witch ...

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 ...

Acting on the instructions of a self-appointed “goddess,” a mob in the Indian state of Assam accused a woman in her 60s of witchcraft, dragged her from her home, stripped her and beheaded her.

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 on Tuesday.

Five women were killed in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand by a mob that accused them of practicing witchcraft, police said Saturday. Two dozen people were arrested in connection with the ...

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, in the country’s ...

Police in eastern India have arrested six men accused of battering a woman and her four young children to death and dumping the bodies down a village well because they suspected she was a witch ...

NEW DELHI/PATNA, India, Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I ndia must do more to tackle the practice of witch-branding among tribal communities, activists said on Monday following the murder ...