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  • Teenager from Maharashtra dies after witch physician beats him to expel ‘demon’

    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.

  • UP: College calls ‘Tantrik’ to regard ladies taken in poor health after mid-day meal in Mahoba district

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    LUCKNOW: An incident reflecting how superstitions are nonetheless ruling the psyche of folks in rural spaces got here to the fore when 15 woman scholars at a state government-run college within the Mahua village in Mahoba district have been passed over to a ‘Tantrik’ (sorcerer) for remedy as that they had taken in poor health after a consultation of mid-day meal within the college.

    In the meantime, the district government ordered a probe into the incident, stated the police resources.

    The incident happened on Monday when the varsity government as a substitute of taking the scholars to a sanatorium, known as in a ‘Tantrik’ and requested him to dispossess them of the ‘dangerous spirits’ that would possibly have possessed the ladies resulting in the deterioration of their situation.  The sorcerer persisted to follow exorcism at the ladies for 2 hours.

    A video purportedly appearing the incident additionally went viral on social media and then the district management and police government swung into motion and reached the varsity. The staff of senior officers chased the ‘Tantrik’ out of the varsity and rushed the lady scholars to the local people well being centre for remedy.

    In step with Kulpahar Sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) Arun Dikshit, now not best the incident of the exorcist treating the ladies was once being probed however the samples of the meals ready within the mid-day meal have been additionally accrued and given to the meals inspector for investigation.

    “It appears, the ladies fell in poor health because of excessive chilly climate stipulations. The probe is on to establish the info and on whose recommendation the ‘Tantrik’ was once summoned,” stated Dixit.

    Sharing different main points, Dixit stated that the lady scholars who were given in poor health have been within the 9-13 years of age workforce. “Some scholars advised us that a couple of kids had additionally taken in poor health 2-3 days in the past, however recovered after a while,” he added.

    The docs on the CHC stated that the ladies fainted in panic and all have been very scared. “Alternatively, their situation is returning to normalcy,” they added. Dr Mahur, posted on the CHC claimed that the entire ladies delivered to the sanatorium didn’t have the similar signs.

    Whilst a few of them have been affected by abdomen pain, others have been complaining of a headache and giddiness. “In reality, the entire ill scholars didn’t devour the mid-day meal. Only some had eaten,” stated the physician including that the remainder of them have been frightened of seeing the way in which the ‘Tantrik’ was once treating them.

    At the different, the native police resources claimed that the varsity workforce known as the ‘Tantrik’ because the villagers believed that the varsity development was once inhabited via ghosts. They additional stated {that a} woman kid on Monday had first observed a lady wearing white and he or she disappeared after some time.

    LUCKNOW: An incident reflecting how superstitions are nonetheless ruling the psyche of folks in rural spaces got here to the fore when 15 woman scholars at a state government-run college within the Mahua village in Mahoba district have been passed over to a ‘Tantrik’ (sorcerer) for remedy as that they had taken in poor health after a consultation of mid-day meal within the college.

    In the meantime, the district government ordered a probe into the incident, stated the police resources.

    The incident happened on Monday when the varsity government as a substitute of taking the scholars to a sanatorium, known as in a ‘Tantrik’ and requested him to dispossess them of the ‘dangerous spirits’ that would possibly have possessed the ladies resulting in the deterioration of their situation.  The sorcerer persisted to follow exorcism at the ladies for 2 hours.

    A video purportedly appearing the incident additionally went viral on social media and then the district management and police government swung into motion and reached the varsity. The staff of senior officers chased the ‘Tantrik’ out of the varsity and rushed the lady scholars to the local people well being centre for remedy.

    In step with Kulpahar Sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) Arun Dikshit, now not best the incident of the exorcist treating the ladies was once being probed however the samples of the meals ready within the mid-day meal have been additionally accrued and given to the meals inspector for investigation.

    “It appears, the ladies fell in poor health because of excessive chilly climate stipulations. The probe is on to establish the info and on whose recommendation the ‘Tantrik’ was once summoned,” stated Dixit.

    Sharing different main points, Dixit stated that the lady scholars who were given in poor health have been within the 9-13 years of age workforce. “Some scholars advised us that a couple of kids had additionally taken in poor health 2-3 days in the past, however recovered after a while,” he added.

    The docs on the CHC stated that the ladies fainted in panic and all have been very scared. “Alternatively, their situation is returning to normalcy,” they added. Dr Mahur, posted on the CHC claimed that the entire ladies delivered to the sanatorium didn’t have the similar signs.

    Whilst a few of them have been affected by abdomen pain, others have been complaining of a headache and giddiness. “In reality, the entire ill scholars didn’t devour the mid-day meal. Only some had eaten,” stated the physician including that the remainder of them have been frightened of seeing the way in which the ‘Tantrik’ was once treating them.

    At the different, the native police resources claimed that the varsity workforce known as the ‘Tantrik’ because the villagers believed that the varsity development was once inhabited via ghosts. They additional stated {that a} woman kid on Monday had first observed a lady wearing white and he or she disappeared after some time.