‘Witches’ chop off Indian father’s hands and burn him alive claimed Mr Chopra was a rival sorcerer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1201344316300182052" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">                  </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCofVxbsXH1QeFSsCtEwO_C9M9aSAWKBi0MXXuAH3g1y2S00CsAGvVlTpK2Db5-7pfQU0bJ0Bc9awrgNNGI7NOar9DpLGrpNrn1ygwWTG81hWodgkSA59281s4U-SvjwzT9ziKX8LmN3k/s1600/1409223680460_wps_1_Pic_shows_Sorceresses_are.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCofVxbsXH1QeFSsCtEwO_C9M9aSAWKBi0MXXuAH3g1y2S00CsAGvVlTpK2Db5-7pfQU0bJ0Bc9awrgNNGI7NOar9DpLGrpNrn1ygwWTG81hWodgkSA59281s4U-SvjwzT9ziKX8LmN3k/s1600/1409223680460_wps_1_Pic_shows_Sorceresses_are.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The picture above is the coven of witches, including Parvati, centre, and six of her followers, who have been arrested after allegedly hacking off a man's hands and burning him alive in front of his wife and 10-year-old son<br /><br />The man in question asked the witches for help to treating his sick 10-year-old son. According to Police, Mr Chopra went to the local witch doctor named Parvati, for treatment for his son. But as soon as the family reached her place, Parvati accused Mr Chopra of being a rival sorcerer and ordered her disciples to kill him.</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">''They were laughing and dancing around his body to music while he screamed in agony. In the end there was just a pile of ashes left,' said a police spokesman in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, the closest city to where the ritual slaying happened.''</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife Sushma later told police:</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'It was sickening. They surrounded him and took turns to stab him with tridents and hack at him with an axe. They cut off his hands because they said that was where his power was.My husband told them he had no powers, no witchcraft, but they wouldn't listen. The more he screamed, the more they sang and the more they laughed.Then to make sure his power was gone for ever, they said they had to burn him. This was in front of our son who was terrified.'</span></blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcaUTKyhVORuVwC_nIEIUQl-02ntm6xlhHWfjQg7tYQr4rOWDGUuodpgfgHnms3Hb4HaPK3iDGrmr1tVvV7gdcKr75_AOVB3ZvR3BzNBTGxY6IVH6mwmLb_JaW5qCkrjD5tJbZPUuSPw/s1600/1409223788934_wps_2_Pic_shows_Brijlal_s_wife_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcaUTKyhVORuVwC_nIEIUQl-02ntm6xlhHWfjQg7tYQr4rOWDGUuodpgfgHnms3Hb4HaPK3iDGrmr1tVvV7gdcKr75_AOVB3ZvR3BzNBTGxY6IVH6mwmLb_JaW5qCkrjD5tJbZPUuSPw/s1600/1409223788934_wps_2_Pic_shows_Brijlal_s_wife_.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                                 <i>Chopra's wife being consoled by her son</i><br /><i><br /></i>Police say the witch and six of her followers are in custody awaiting trial for murder.</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We confiscated literature on witchcraft, as well as axes and tridents from the scene. We have also recovered some ashes for forensic tests,' said a police spokesman.</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parvati and her followers allowed Sushma and her son to leave, but vowed to curse them if they told anyone.<br />The pair ignored the threats and traveled all night to the nearest police station where they reported the killing.<br /><br />A UN official last year said that archaic cultural practices such as lynching women branded as witches persisted in India partly because they were social sanctioned and not treated as as crimes by police.<br />Government statistics show there were 160 cases of murder linked to witch hunts in 2013, and 119 the previous year.</span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1201344316300182052" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div>

‘Witches’ chop off Indian father’s hands and burn him alive claimed Mr Chopra was a rival sorcerer

                   The picture above is the coven of witches, including Parvati, centre, and six of her followers, who have been arreste...

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