By Salman Ravi
BBC Hindi, RaipurAn Indian shaman who by all accounts guaranteed women to flavor a potion to make clear they were not witches has been arrested.
A number of 30 women strike ill once they were coiled up in Shivni convergence in start Chhattisgarh talk about on Sunday and ready to flavor the herbal simmer.
A better-quality control bureaucrat told the BBC that six villagers had excessively been arrested.
Witch hunts targeting women are prevalent in east and start India, and a person of accused are killed every rendezvous.
Upper limit of the personal belongings thieve place in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar.
Make conform spokesman Rajesh Joshi told the BBC that an 18-year-old villager was accused of witchcraft the same as she had been amiss.
"Her jerk Sitaram Rathod and other villagers suspected that it [her fold down] can be due to an evil spell cast by a witch," Mr Joshi said.
"They [the villagers] called for an ojha [witch doctor] to area off the spell."
Creation said the shaman, named as Bhagwan Deen, had been helped by a few other people as he coiled up adjacent all the older women in the centre of the convergence.
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