RANCHI: Accusing a
woman of practicing voodoo, a mob killed a 50 year - old woman
Bigalahi Devi with sharp edged weapon at Sadma village in Ranchi district
on Wednesday evening.
Confirming
the incident, Ranchi Superintendent of Police (Rural) Upendra
Kumar said six persons including a woman have been arrested in this
connection.
The arrest
was made on the basis an FIR lodged with Ormanjhi police station.
Earlier
on Tuesday, a woman, Patiya Devi was paraded through the main thoroughfare
of Alankera village in Gumla district and forced to consume human excreta
for, what the villagers alleged, practicing black magic and causing
the death of 14 year - old girl.
Sources
in the police said that irked by the death of two children of the villagers,
a mob on Wednesday evening barged into the house of Bigalahi Devi and
killed her. The villagers suspected Bigalahi Devi to be indulged in
practice of black magic.
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