Witch Hunting Continues In Rajasthan

Women continue to be labelled as witches in Rajasthan even as the government is yet to act on a draft bill to check the practice. In the second such incident of witch hunting in a month, a 45-year-old woman was beaten till she fell unconscious.

Some people in Kasarwadi village in Banswara district, over 600 km from here, held Vensa, the wife of villager Deva Dangi, responsible for the illness of a child and beat her Friday.

'We were informed about the incident by the family members of the women. We are looking into it,' a senior police official from Dungra police station told IANS on telephone. The woman has been admitted in a local hospital. Full Story

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