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

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 ...

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, around 2,100 such murders took place in the country between 2001 and 2012. In 2020 alone, at least 15 women were murdered on suspicion of witchcraft ...

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

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 ...

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.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, there were 134 cases of murders linked to witch hunts in 2016.

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 ...

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 ...