Odisha Witchcraft killings: NHRC seeks report from District Magistrate, Superintendent of Police of Keonjhar
"The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice, returnable in two weeks, to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, Keonjhar, Odisha after taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that on allegations of practicing witchcraft, six members of a family were hacked to death while two others were seriously injured at Mundashahi village in the district on the 12th July, 2015. The dead included the head of the family, Gura Munda, his wife, two daughters and two sons," NHRC said in a statement.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victim and his family.
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