SORCERY IN INDIA
BOY SACRIFICED BY VILLAGERS. CHARGE OF MURDER FOLLOWS. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph Copyright.) Delhi, April 3. Two villagers in the province of Behar and Orissa have been sentenced to death on a charge of murdering a boy as a sacrifice to Kali, the Hindu Godde&s of Power. The men who practised sorcery lured the boy into the jungle on the festival night and beheaded him, throwing his body into a well. The Congress supporters’ attempt to carry Gandhi’s photograph in the sacred juggernaut car at the Hindu festival in the village of Pedvadampalli, near Madras, resulted in the Congress men being fiercely attacked by devout Hindus. The police bad to fire to disperse the rioters, two of whom were killed. Several police were injured, and one is missing.
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Southland Times, Issue 21361, 6 April 1931, Page 7
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