Bhubaneswar: Overpowered by superstition, residents of an Odisha village allegedly meted out inhuman physical torture to three members of a family and fed human excreta charging that they were practicing sorcery and thereby causing harassment to the villagers.
The incident occurred in Balighai village under Soroda police limit in Ganjam district where Bijay Bisoi, his wife and son were forced to have faeces for failing to meet the villagers’ condition to pay Rs 5 lakh fine. The police on Saturday arrested 15 persons in this connection and forwarded to the court.
According to reports, Bijay and his family were exiled from the village since 2013 for allegedly practising sorcery.
When his youngest son Rohit approached the villagers expressing their desire to return to the village, the villagers convened a meeting on July 1 and asked the family to pay Rs 5 lakh as fine.
