PTI | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
A 14-year-old ailing boy from Maharashtra’s Sangli district died allegedly after he was severely overwhelmed up by a witch physician, who claimed that {the teenager} was possessed, an official stated on Tuesday.
Aryan Deepak Landge, who lived in Kavathe Mahankal of the district, died of accidents on Could 20 however the incident got here to mild after anti-superstition activists approached the police, he stated.
As per the criticism by activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, an organisation that works in direction of eradicating superstitions and blind religion, Landge had a fever for a lot of days and there was no aid regardless of therapy. His household took him to a ‘mantrik’ (witch physician), Appasaheb Kamble, at Shirgur in neighbouring Karnataka, the official stated.
Kamble claimed that the boy was possessed by a “demon” and he would want to “drive” it away by beating up Landge. Nevertheless, the boy sustained severe accidents because of the beating, prompting his household to hurry him to a hospital in Miraj in Sangli district, about 40 km from Shirgur. He died throughout therapy, the official stated.
After studying about Landge’s loss of life, activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti met his relations after which assistant police inspector Jitendra Shahane at Kavathe Mahankal police station to lodge a criticism.
As there isn’t any anti-superstition laws in Karnataka, the official stated, police registered a Zero FIR underneath Indian Penal Code part 304 (inflicting loss of life by negligence) towards the witch physician. A Zero FIR (first data report) permits any police to just accept a criticism and ahead it to the suitable station for motion. The case will now be probed by the Karnataka police, he added.
