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Somewhere in August last year, close to the date when anti-superstition crusader NarendraDhaborkar was killed, two women were killed in a remote village in Assams Kokrajhar district by villagers who suspected them of practising witchcraft.A 70-year-old cleaning lady and her 42-year-old daughter-in-law were killed by a large number of village women, who accused the couplet of practising witchcraft in June 2013 in Ranchi.A 50-year-old womanFuloTopono and her 30-year-old daughter Suggidaughter were hacked to death in Khunti district in Ranchi in November 2013 for allegedly practising witchcraft.These are just few examples which found a mention in the English newspapers of our country. Of late the branding of women as witches and subjecting them to horrendous and irrational torture has been on a rise. The collocation of this practise laced with superstition with the rapid modernisation in the substitute of the country and the technological progress is hair-raising. A National Crime R ecords role report quotes that a total of 1,157 women have been killed for witchcraft in Jharkhand betwixt 1991 and ...