Chhattisgarh reports deaths every 3 days due to superstition

Raipur | Correspondent: In Chhattisgarh, superstition continues to have deadly consequences, with reports indicating that a person loses their life every three days as a result of these harmful beliefs.

Fanaticism in Chhattisgarh is escalating with incidence involving violence fueled by such beliefs becoming more frequent.

In the past 40 days, a total of 14 individuals have lost their lives due to superstitions, including a 70-year-old elderly person, a 10-year-old boy, five women, and a police head constable.

A tragic instance took place on Sunday in the Durg district, where a 35-year-old grandchild Gulshan Ban Goswami allegedly killed his 70-year-old grandmother, Rukmani Goswami, using a trident from a nearby Shiva temple.

Later Gulshan reportedly anointed the Shivling with the grandmother’s blood as a ritual.

Two days prior on Oct 18, two brothers of age 22 and 25 respectively were killed by their own family members during a tantric ritual in the Sakti district.

The brothers opposed these practices, which led to conflict within the family. When they once again voiced their objections.

In response, their family reportedly conspired to poison their water and, when the brothers fainted, strangled them to death.

In a tragic incident in Balrampur-Ramanujganj district on Oct 7, a decapitated body of a 10-year-old boy, Brijesh Kumar Pal, was found near the Moran River in the Balangi police station area.

Brijesh, a class 5 student from Torfa village, had been missing for five days. He disappeared on the evening of September 2 while playing outside his home.

The discovery of his body, with his throat slit, has led villagers to suspect the possibility of a ritual sacrifice.

On Oct 5, in an incident in Ninwa village, Dharsiwa, near the capital of Chhattisgarh, a 55-year-old man had committed suicide by cutting his neck at his home’s place of worship on Saturday.

The deceased, identified as Bhuvaneshwar Yadav, was reportedly of a deeply religious nature.

According to the police, Bhuvaneshwar Yadav took his life by slitting his neck with scissors in front of the temple inside his house. At the time of the incident, no other family members were present at home.

In a news report revealed, on September 15, In Itkal village, Sukma district, five members of a family, including a police head constable, were killed on over suspicions of practicing witchcraft.

The victims, three of whom were women, lived in Etkal village in the Konta area.

According to police reports, a group of villagers attacked the family, believing they were responsible for several deaths in the community over the past two weeks.

On September 12, four people, including two sisters, a brother, and a one-year-old child, were killed in Balodabazar, on suspicion of witchcraft.

According to the police reports, the accused claimed that a girl from their household had been ill for an extended period despite receiving treatment from various sources. Seeking further assistance, the family consulted a tantrik, who alleged that their neighbor had cast black magic on the girl, causing her ongoing illness.

Fueled by these accusations, the accused decided to take matters into their own hands, leading to a brutal attack in which they killed four individuals, including a six-month-old child, using a sharp weapon.