May 16
INDIA:
7 given death penalty in 2012 'witch' lynching case
7 persons, including a woman, were today sentenced to death and 6 others to
life imprisonment by a court in Ghatal for the 2012 lynching of 3 women of a
single family on suspicion of their being witches at a village in West
Midnapore district.
1 more person was sent to 9 years in jail by the court of SDJM Deboprosad Nath
in the sensational killing of the 3 women at Dubrajpur village under Daspur
police station area in June, 2012. FIRs were filed against a total 49 persons,
all residents of the same village which the slain women belonged to for
assaulting and torturing the victims to death after suspecting them to be
witches.
(source: Press Trust of India)
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