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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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