A Branded 'Witch' Beaten Till Death In Rajasthan As 5 Arrested

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Five people, including two teenage girls, of a family have been arrested for allegedly killing a 40-year-old woman in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. 

The woman, a widow, was allegedly made to eat faeces, tortured and beaten to death by her relatives, who accused her of being a witch, the police said.

The woman's 15-year-old son is the only eyewitness in the case.According to the boy, after his father died last month, their relatives began to harass his mother. 

 "Kanya Devi Raigar was branded a witch and severely tortured before being beaten to death," Superintendent of Police (SP) of Ajmer, Rajendra Singh, said. 

 There have been claims that the relatives also gouged out her eyes with a hot rod, but Mr Singh said since they didn't get her body and no post mortem was conducted it was difficult to ascertain these claims.

 "Thorough interrogation of the accused will reveal what transpired that day," he said.

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