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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo moto cognizance of a media report revealing the gruesome murder of five members of a Scheduled Tribe family in Purnia district of Bihar. The ...

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 ...

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.

In Purnea district alone, five of a family killed, bodies set on fire by villagers on suspicion of practising witchcraft ...

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.

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 ...