The boy sustained severe accidents as a result of beating and died throughout therapy (Representational)
Mumbai:
A 14-year-old ailing boy from Maharashtra’s Sangli district died allegedly after he was severely overwhelmed up by a witch physician, who claimed that {the teenager} was possessed, an official mentioned on Tuesday.
Aryan Deepak Landge, who lived in Kavathe Mahankal of the district, died of accidents on May 20 however the incident got here to gentle after anti-superstition activists approached the police, he mentioned.
As per the grievance by activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, an organisation that works in the direction of eradicating superstitions and blind religion, Aryan Deepak Landge had a fever for a lot of days and there was no aid regardless of therapy.
His household took him to a ‘mantrik’ (witch physician), Appasaheb Kamble, at Shirgur in neighbouring Karnataka, the official mentioned.
Appasaheb Kamble claimed that the boy was possessed by a “demon” and he would wish to “drive” it away by beating up Aryan Deepak Landge.
However, the boy sustained severe accidents as a result of beating, prompting his household to hurry him to a hospital in Miraj in Sangli district, about 40 km from Shirgur. He died throughout therapy, the official mentioned.
After studying about Aryan Deepak Landge’s demise, activists from Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti met his members of the family after which assistant police inspector Jitendra Shahane at Kavathe Mahankal police station to lodge a grievance.
As there isn’t a anti-superstition laws in Karnataka, the official mentioned, police registered a Zero FIR below Indian Penal Code part 304 (inflicting demise by negligence) in opposition to the witch physician.
A Zero FIR (first data report) permits any police to just accept a grievance and ahead it to the suitable station for motion.
The case will now be probed by the Karnataka police, he added.
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