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GUWAHATI
A mates accused of practising witchcraft was burnt live by a radical of villagers successful cardinal Assam’s Karbi Anglong territory connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) night, constabulary said.
The deceased were identified arsenic 43-year-old Gardi Birowa and Mira Birowa, 33, of No. 1 Beloguri Munda colony successful the district’s Howraghat area.
A territory constabulary serviceman said the assailants acceptable the couple’s location connected occurrence aft injuring them with crisp weapons inside.
“We person launched an probe to place and apprehension those progressive successful the crime, apt an result of deep-rooted superstitions,” a elder constabulary authoritative said aft visiting the tract connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) morning.
Locals said the victims were accused of bringing misfortune upon the colony by practising witchcraft.
Assam has been grappling with the witch-hunting contented for decades. Police said witchcraft-related unit is punishable nether the Assam Witch Hunting (Prohibition, Prevention, and Protection) Act of 2015, isolated from applicable Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Official records amusement astatine slightest 160 radical were killed successful witch-hunting incidents crossed Assam betwixt 2001 and 2019. Most of these incidents were recorded successful Chirang, Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Udalguri and Sonitpur districts.
