These survivors still get haunted by the trauma of the nightmare they went through.įorty-five-year-old Rebecca Tirkey of Rampur village recalls with horror how she was branded a witch, which followed with abuse and socially boycott, after a neighbour's daughter fell ill. "He will kill me… he will not spare me," said Bhikhni while undergoing counselling by 'didis' of state government's Project Garima, an initiative to restore the lost dignity of such witch-hunting survivors in Jharkhand.īhikhni is among the many witch-hunting victims of Gumla, one of the most backward districts and is also Maoist-affected. The woman still has sleepless nights dreading about what will happen to her when her tormentor, who is behind bars now, gets out of prison after completion of jail term. She was tortured and humiliated beyond measure, scars that remain even two years after the incident. Gumla (Jharkhand), May 8 (PTI) Forty-year-old Bhikhni was stripped and dragged by hair after a neighbour saw her practicing 'sorcery' in his dreams.
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