India, April 1 -- Two men in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district beheaded their 65-year-old grandmother and dumped her body on a railway track on suspicions that she practised witchcraft and that they were going to be her next target, police said on Tuesday.

The two brothers, Lakshman Kaivarto (23) and Chandan Kaivarto (20) were arrested on Tuesday by a special team led by Seraikela sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Samir Kumar Savaiya.

"The two said they suspected her of practising 'witchcraft' which, according to them, brought harm to the family. They said that they were sure that they were her next targets after their father's death a couple of years ago. At their instance, the severed head of the deceased woman, the butcher ...