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June 14th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
The collected money was then used to buy alcohol, which the villagers consumed
before setting upon the pair, he added.
The attack follows another incident in the same district in June last year,
when two teenagers and their father were killed by villagers after they were
accused of practising witchcraft and “leaving ghosts behind them,”
a police official said.
Some states including Jharkhand have introduced special laws in an attempt to
curb crimes against people accused of witchcraft.
Human sacrifices also sometimes occur in poorer and remote areas of deeply
religious and superstitious India, where people fear and revere
practitioners of so-called black magic.
The victims are killed by witch doctors to please or appease deities.
Edited for Telegraph.co.uk by Barney
Henderson
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