We have been hearing various superstitions people follow in india for the reason god knows. Here is one of such superstition where a grandfather killed his granddaughter so that he can mix her blood in his field by which he believed he would yield a better crop in his farm. Disgusting.
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A 10-year-old girl in an Orissa village was beheaded by her grandfather, who believed that sowing seeds mixed with her blood would yield a bumper crop, police said on Monday.
The barbaric incident, spurred by age-old superstitions, took place on Sunday at the tribal-populated Adapathar village in Sambalpur district, over 450 km from Bhubaneshwar. The heinous crime came to light after villagers caught the man, Rajesh Hembram, and handed him over to the police.
Hembram, 52, has around three acres of agricultural land. To get a good harvest, he had planned in advanced to sow seeds mixed with the blood of his granddaughter on Akshaya Tritiya on Monday, a day considered auspicious by Hindus, police said.
"He cut off his granddaughter Bernaka Kandulana's head with an axe in a room when nobody was at home and drained her blood into a pot," P C Nayak, inspector in charge of the local police station, told IANS.
"We found some seeds in a steel pot that were mixed with blood," he said. "The man has been arrested and has confessed that he kept it to sow in his field on Akshaya Tritiya," he said.
Bernaka's head and the remaining part of the body were also found in the same room, the official added.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com, April 27, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Sad. Fact is, though it is the 21st century, in our country, many barbaric rituals like the sacrificial killing here, honour killing etc still are being practised.
ReplyDeleteSo many questions occur...if people didn't have to grapple with poverty day in and day out would such desperate measure still be taken? ... if awareness through some form of education was to reach everybody would minds still be tricked into doing such acts?
Wishing for a strong society, a society that is above religion and superstition is just going to be a wish for a long while hence meanwhile...
... as a friend never ceases to point out without due punishment there is no civilised society.
yes..really sad..
ReplyDeletei really dont understand why do people believe in such meaningless superstitions..
but what i dont understand here is what will the people around them doing..wont they stop them doing such things..
wont the police and law stop them doing such things..