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 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.

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

The suspicion that the family was practising occult rituals grew so strong among the villagers that it drove them to brutally ...

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.

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 ...