21 booked for attacking, three men stripped of witchcraft accusations in Raipur

Twenty -one people have been booked for brutal abuse and stripping three men about witchcraft accusations in Raipur three months ago.

The first information report (FIR) was registered on 9 June after a lower court order. It documents that the trio was kept in captivity that struck them, paraded semi-naked and robbed them of their money and other possessions in the ABhanpur area of ​​the Raipur district on 13 March. It also notes that, despite the fact that he was aware of the incident, the police refused to submit a FIR to submit a FIR to ask the victims to look for a judicial intervention.

The three victims Naresh Kumar Sahu, Amar Singh Sahu and his son Tilak Sahu were reportedly struck with bamboo sticks and belts.

According to the FIR, after they paraded them semi naked in the village, they were sitting naked in a square and they were beaten all night with shoes, slippers and sticks. “In the meantime, the applicants fainted many times, so they were brought back to consciousness by watering them and they were poured over and over again. They rubbed red chili powder in the places of where blood trickled. When the applicants screamed of pain, no. Non-applications no.

The torture continued until the next morning when someone from the village informed the police. Anyway, “the police came but could not save the applicants in view of the crowd and their aggressiveness and insulting language.” The first police respondents then called for more police who led the attack to be stopped. It is also claimed that the accused to prevent some action against them, to put pressure on applicants and to have them signed a letter stating that they did not want a police action.

“Because the applicants were afraid of their lives at that time, the applicants were forced to sign on a flat newspaper and only after signing did the non-applicants allow the police to take the applicants away,” says the FIR.

According to the role of the police, the FIR says that the applicants asked the aforementioned police personnel to take action and when they asked to take them to the police station, they quoted that they were maintaining the law and order during the Holi festival.

Raipur Senior Superintendent or Police Lal Ummed Singh said FIR was registered against 21 accused after the judicial order.