It's easy to cross the line from true belief into superstition. Some Indians persist in using bizarre methods to 'manifest' their dreams and desires.
Today, Punekars woke up to disturbing news, eerily similar to the one that broke months ago, when a 28-year-old woman was compelled to ingest human and animal bone powder as part of 'Aghori Pooja."
This made them file the FIR. Since her marriage in 2019, the woman claims her in-laws have been harassing her.
According to the FIR, the accused tied the victim's hands and feet during her period, then used a cotton swab to gather her menstrual blood before selling it for witchcraft for 50,000 rupees.?
The accused have been arrested following the 2013 Maharashtra Act for the Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil, and Aghori Activities and Black Magic.
"The victim woman has stated in her complaint that she was starved for three days during her monthly period, and her menstrual blood was collected and sold to someone for Rs 50,000 for some black magic purposes," Dr. Kayande said.
When Pune Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil heard the news, he asked that the worst punishments in the Indian Penal Code be given to those who did this.
In January, a lady from an educated upbringing reported to the Sinhgad Road police that she was forced into taking human bone powder as part of a black magic ritual to conceive.
Seven members of her family were arrested after the incident and charged with the same act under Sections 498A, 323, 504,506 of IPC along with section 3 of the anti-superstition law.
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