By means of PTI
MUMBAI: A 14-year-old in poor health boy from Maharashtra’s Sangli district died allegedly after he used to be seriously overwhelmed up through a witch physician, who claimed that {the teenager} used to be possessed, an professional stated on Tuesday.
Aryan Deepak Landge, who lived in Kavathe Mahankal of the district, died of accidents on Would possibly 20 however the incident got here to mild after anti-superstition activists approached the police, he stated.
As according to the criticism through activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, an organisation that works against removing superstitions and blind religion, Landge had a fever for lots of days and there used to be no aid in spite of remedy.
His circle of relatives took him to a ‘mantrik’ (witch physician), Appasaheb Kamble, at Shirgur in neighbouring Karnataka, the professional stated.
Kamble claimed that the boy used to be possessed through a ‘demon’ and he would wish to ‘pressure it away’ through beating up Landge.
Alternatively, the boy sustained severe accidents because of the thrashing, prompting his circle of relatives to hurry him to a clinic in Miraj in Sangli district, about 40 km from Shirgur.
He died all over remedy, the professional stated.
After finding out about Landge’s demise, activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti met his members of the family after which assistant police inspector Jitendra Shahane at Kavathe Mahankal police station to resort a criticism.
As there’s no anti-superstition regulation in Karnataka, the professional stated, police registered a 0 FIR below Indian Penal Code phase 304 (inflicting demise through negligence) in opposition to the witch physician.
A 0 FIR (first knowledge record) permits any police to simply accept a criticism and ahead it to the right station for motion.
The case will now be probed through the Karnataka police, he added.
MUMBAI: A 14-year-old in poor health boy from Maharashtra’s Sangli district died allegedly after he used to be seriously overwhelmed up through a witch physician, who claimed that {the teenager} used to be possessed, an professional stated on Tuesday.
Aryan Deepak Landge, who lived in Kavathe Mahankal of the district, died of accidents on Would possibly 20 however the incident got here to mild after anti-superstition activists approached the police, he stated.
As according to the criticism through activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, an organisation that works against removing superstitions and blind religion, Landge had a fever for lots of days and there used to be no aid in spite of remedy.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
His circle of relatives took him to a ‘mantrik’ (witch physician), Appasaheb Kamble, at Shirgur in neighbouring Karnataka, the professional stated.
Kamble claimed that the boy used to be possessed through a ‘demon’ and he would wish to ‘pressure it away’ through beating up Landge.
Alternatively, the boy sustained severe accidents because of the thrashing, prompting his circle of relatives to hurry him to a clinic in Miraj in Sangli district, about 40 km from Shirgur.
He died all over remedy, the professional stated.
After finding out about Landge’s demise, activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti met his members of the family after which assistant police inspector Jitendra Shahane at Kavathe Mahankal police station to resort a criticism.
As there’s no anti-superstition regulation in Karnataka, the professional stated, police registered a 0 FIR below Indian Penal Code phase 304 (inflicting demise through negligence) in opposition to the witch physician.
A 0 FIR (first knowledge record) permits any police to simply accept a criticism and ahead it to the right station for motion.
The case will now be probed through the Karnataka police, he added.