India, Aug. 7 -- Eight people have been arrested in Odisha's Gajapati district on Thursday in connection with the murder of a man on suspicion that he practised sorcery.
The deceased, Karunakar Dalei, was from Kamalapur village in Jirang gram panchayat, but had been staying in Kusumpur village for the last eight months, where he made and sold herbal medicine. But after a villager's 12-year-old son died last month, rumours of Dalei practising witchcraft started doing the rounds.
On July 28, some villagers took him from his house to an anganwadi centre where he was confined for three days and beaten mercilessly till he died. The suspects buried his body in the forest on a hillock about 4 km away from the village.
Gajapati superintendent ...
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