Chhaterpur police in Palamu recovered a brutally slaughtered body of a 70 year old man in the premise of Devi Mandap. Confirming this DSP Chhaterpur Shambhu Kumar Singh said the deceased has been identified as Vishundev Yadav of Kangaleedeeh tola Koobhyahi under this police station.
Singh said he had a throat cut besides blunt injuries on head too and suspected to be witchcraft practice. Singh said the deceased was a perpetual alcoholic. The place in the Devi Mandap’s premise where his body was found had jar of illicit liquor.
Singh said Yadav was in the habit of driving away ghosts for as cheap as one chicken and one bottle of mahua liquor. The DSP reiterated that in remote villages there is a practice of transferring ghost from this family to that and this has led to such senseless killing.
Police have registered the case but there is no arrest so far. Police are working to find out if any mishap had occurred in the village that the person belonged to.
The DSP said in villages a man’s death or a child’s death or even death of any cattle be it goat or cow is attributed to evil powers of any elderly man living in that village and there are few people who do not believe this otherwise a large number of people begin to suspect the elderly man.