Odisha’s Gajapati Man Killed Over Suspicion of Practising Witchcraft| Mo of Everything

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00:00A 35-year-old man in Odisha's Gajapati district was killed and mutilated by villagers over

00:04suspicion of practicing witchcraft on 2nd August 2025. As per police officials,

00:09villagers believe the man used black magic to cause a woman's death two weeks earlier.

00:14In retaliation, they strangled him, mutilated his genitals and dumped his body in Harabhangi Dam.

00:19India is reaching for the stars, launching rockets, chasing cosmic dreams,

00:23yet on the ground, superstition still claims lives.

00:27Just weeks before that, on July 19, 2025, in Purnia district, Bihar,

00:31five members of a tribal family, including a 71-year-old grandmother, were burned alive by a mob.

00:37Villagers believe they were behind recent deaths due to sorcery.

00:40Petrol was poured, the fire was lit.

00:42Witchcraft in India is the belief that some individuals use supernatural powers to cause harm.

00:47According to NCRB data, over 3,000 witchcraft-related murders were recorded in India between 2000 and

00:532021, in which Jharkhand tops witchcraft-related killings with 593 women murdered between 2001 and 2021.

01:01Despite legal provisions and modernization,

01:03witchcraft-related violence continues to surface in parts of India.

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