Jharkhand:27 arrested for killing 5 women in superstition
AMN /
Five women, belonging to different families was killed on suspicions of being witches (‘Dayan’) by the people of same locality Friday midnight.
Incident took place at Kanjia Toli of Mnadar Police Station under Ranchi district late Friday night. Police has arrested more than 27 people in this connection, in which many are educated youths and women.
The five dead bodies have been sent for postmortem at RIMS Ranchi. DIG Arun Kumar along with other senior officers are camping the area and large number of police have been deployed.
On the issue, Chief Minister’s media advisor told reporters that 27 people have been arrested so far in connection with the killing of five women Friday in Mandar, Ranchi.