13-Yr-Outdated Lady Fed Burning Wooden Throughout ‘Exorcism’ In Chhattisgarh

The teenager was accused mixing poison within the providing. (Representational)

Mahasamund:

A 13-year-old lady was severely injured after she was thrashed and a burning piece of wooden was thrust into her mouth in an ashram in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh, a police official mentioned on Friday.

Three individuals have been arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement within the crime, which occurred on February 24 in Jai Gurudev Manas Ashram in Paterapali village beneath Bagbahra police station limits, mentioned Ajay Shankar Tripathi, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).

“The criticism was lodged on February 28 by the sufferer’s brother. These arrested embody the ashram’s operator-cum-head guru. As per preliminary probe, the kid, from Abhanpur space in Raipur district, was dropped at the ashram for remedy of some psychological ailment although ‘jhaad-phoonk’ (exorcism),” the SDOP mentioned.

“After her brother left her on the ashram and returned residence, three ‘sevadars’ (volunteers) thrashed the lady after an argument broke out over providing ‘bhog’. The three inserted a bit of burning wooden inside her mouth, inflicting critical burn accidents. They threatened her household to not report the matter to anybody,” he added.

The brother of the sufferer informed reporters the three males accused the teenager lady of blending poison within the ‘bhog’.

The three have been charged beneath Indian Penal Code sections 307 (try to homicide), 294 (obscene acts), 506 (prison intimidation) and 34 (widespread intention) of the IPC, with part 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof) additionally slapped in opposition to the operator-cum-head guru, the official knowledgeable.

“The lady was first admitted in a hospital in Bagbahra after which shifted to a medical facility in Arang in Raipur. We’ve discovered lots of people go to the ashram for ‘jhaad-phoonk’ and such strategies of remedy,” Tripathi mentioned.

The Mahasamund superintendent of police (SP) has ordered inspection of ashrams the place such sorts of remedy was being supplied, whereas the state income division has requested for particulars in regards to the ashram in query, its land and different operational particulars, the SDOP mentioned.

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