Four folks, together with three girls, had been allegedly tied to a pole, attacked with scorching iron rods and compelled to eat human excreta in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, police stated. The incident is of a village in Saraihat space on Sunday night time.
Dumka SP A Lakra stated that the police have arrested six folks dwelling in the identical village because the victims. “There are undercurrents of property dispute or diseases in the incident. However, the motive is yet to be ascertained,” the SP stated.
Police have booked IPC sections 448 (encroachment on home), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 325 (inflicting grievous harm), 307 (try to homicide), 504 (to trigger breach of public peace). Abetment), a case has been registered underneath 506. (legal intimidation), 34 (common intent) in addition to sections of the Prevention of Witchcraft Act.
The police criticism of one of many girls who had been assaulted learn: “On September 24, at 8 pm, my husband and I had been abused and thrashed. We had been thrown out of our houses and known as Dayan (witch). The attackers all fled. However, they got here to my home once more on September 25 at 11 pm. This time, they beat up my husband and two of my family members together with me. We had been made to eat human feces and burn our our bodies with scorching iron rods. An hour later the police had been knowledgeable, after which we had been taken to the hospital.
Based on this criticism, the police have registered an FIR.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
