Three arrested for assaulting woman during exorcism

Three people, including an alleged achromatic magic practitioner, were arrested aft a pistillate was brutally assaulted successful the sanction of exorcism rituals pursuing suspicions that her assemblage was possessed.

The arrested were identified arsenic 54-year-old Sivadas, besides known arsenic Sivan Thirumeni, from Perumthuruthi, Pathanamthitta; 26-year-old Akhildas, the victim’s husband; and her 55-year-old father-in-law, Das, some from Manarcad, Kottayam..

The woman, who joined Akhildas pursuing a emotion affair, was subjected to the battle connected November 2 during a ritual that lasted from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. According to police, the maltreatment was carried retired connected the suspicion that her assemblage had been possessed by the tone of a deceased relative. During the ritual, she was forced to devour alcohol, fume beedis, person ash applied to her assemblage and endure different forms of carnal abuse.

The ordeal severely affected her intelligence health, prompting her begetter to lodge a constabulary complaint. Following the complaint, Sivadas was arrested from her residence. The victim’s mother-in-law, who is besides an accused successful the case, remains absconding.

The accused were produced earlier the Judicial First Class Magistrate successful Kottayam and remanded.