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| India 'witch doctor' sentenced to death for beheading boy |
| 2013-04-17 |
| [Pak Daily Times] An Indian "witch doctor" who beheaded an 11-year-old boy and offered the head as a sacrifice to a goddess to improve his fortunes has been sentenced to death, police said Tuesday. A local court in impoverished Chhattisgarh state in central India convicted 32-year-old Dilip Rathia on Monday of murder and sentenced him to hang for beheading the boy, police said. "We proved the man beheaded the boy and his head was offered to the local goddess to obtain better luck," investigating officer Praful Thakur told AFP by telephone. The case, which highlights the persistence of occult beliefs in remote areas, came to light when police found the child's headless skeleton in the tribal-dominated village of Barpali in Raigarh district, 195 kilometres northeast of state capital Raipur. Forensic tests proved the skeleton was that of an 11-year-old boy named Praveen who disappeared in February 2012 while visiting a village fair, Thakur said. Police, acting on a tip-off, raided the home of a man said by locals to be a "witch doctor" where they found the child's head. The man was "practising witchcraft" and "was convicted on charges of murder, hiding evidence and giving false information to conceal the offence", local police official Rahul Bhagat told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 This crap happens all the time. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2013-04-17 18:30 |
| #1 looks like his "better luck" had an expiration date |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-17 09:29 |