On the directions of Acting Chief Justice-cum-JHAlSA Executive Chairman DN Patel, a team of District legal Services Authority (DlSA) of Ranchi on Friday visited Ulatu Sukardih village to provide assistance to the family members of the couple who was killed in the name of witchcraft a few days back. Though the children could not be found as they have left the village out of fear of also being killed, but the DlSA has been trying to locate them.
Hindu Munda allegedly killed a couple lohar Singh Munda and his wife Karro Devi on May 2 in the name of witchcraft after his son died while being treated by the couple, practitioners of black magic, and buried their bodies in jungles in order to remove evidences. The police recovered the bodies on Tuesday and lodged an FIR in this regard on the statements recorded by the victim’s children.
The Acting Chief Justice took immediate cognizance of the reports published in various newspapers on Friday and directed Judicial Commissioner Navneet Kumar to provide immediate relief to the victims children following a team headed by DlSA Secretary Fahim Qirmani was formed in this regard.
“The team visited the village immediately on Friday to provide relief to the children, but it was found that they have gone to some other place out of fear of being killed by the villagers. As soon as they are located, they will try to provide immediate financial assistance and the victim compensation as per the rules of State Government,” said the DlSA Secretary. The focus will be to rehabilitate the two children if they are minors or provide them some kind of vocational course if they were majors, he added.
The DlSA Secretary said that serious efforts were made to locate them but no one in the village was able to tell about their whereabouts. As per the media reports, the two children were also tortured in the name of witchcraft following which they left the village out of fear, he added.
The team also consists of Panel lawyers Ranchandra Tiwari and Rajesh Sinha, four Para legal Volunteers Nihal Kumar Singh, Anil Thakur, Tara Minj and Janshita Toppo. The team has assured the villagers that DlSA will provide all possible support to educate the children.