Five family members in Bihar's Purnia district were brutally beaten and burned alive over witchcraft allegations, prompting a ...

An Indian court has sentenced a man convicted of the rape and murder of a young female doctor to life in prison. The woman had been on duty in a hospital and the case triggered a wave of protest.

The suspicion that the family was practising occult rituals grew so strong among the villagers that it drove them to brutally ...

Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft.

An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national ...

Before true crime podcasts and Netflix thrillers took off, India was rocked by several real-life horror cases such as the tragic Tandoor murder case in 1995.

The Orissa High Court exercising judicial restraint and playing a balancing role commuted the death sentence awarded to nine condemned convicts for perpetrating a witchcraft-related triple murder ...

In a sensational murder case that has shocked India, the mysterious death of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi during his honeymoon in Meghalaya has taken a dramatic turn with the arrest of his ...

India: Court finds man guilty in hospital rape, murder case 01/18/2025 An Indian court has convicted a 33-year-old man of raping and murdering a doctor. The crime sparked nationwide protests and ...

A police volunteer has been convicted of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital in India that led to nationwide protests last year. The Civil and Criminal Court in Sealdah found 33 ...

The rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in India has sparked nationwide protests, with hundreds of thousands of women marching in cities across the South Asian country.

A police volunteer was found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in India, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year. Judge Anirban Das said the ...