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

Mob in India drags ‘witch’ from home, ... The Adivasi people, who tend to be poor and uneducated, have been the targets of mob violence for years from various tribal groups in the country.

Three main accused, including a minor, have been arrested after five members of a family were allegedly burnt alive on July 6 ...

Indian police talk to villagers after five women accused of practicing witchcraft were killed in Kanjia village in India's eastern Jharkhand state on Aug. 8, 2015 STR—AFP/Getty Images ...

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 ...

Purnia District Magistrate Anshul Kumar said a case has been registered against 23 accused. Main accused is already in police ...

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 ...

More than 1,200 people have been murdered across India for allegedly practising witchcraft since 2008, according to government figures. During the same period in the fertile, tea-growing state of ...

NEW DELHI— Five women were killed in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand by a mob that accused them of practicing witchcraft, police said Saturday.

India is still struggling to eradicate the age-old scourge of witch hunting, a brutal practice often used as an excuse to oppress women, in many cases violently. — The New York Times ...

However, despite the enactment of the Anti Witchcraft Act in Jharkhand in 2001, or the Prevention of Witch Practices Act in 1999 in Bihar, there does not seem to be much respite for the subjugated.