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INDIA: OCCULTIST GETS DEATH FOR BEHEADING BABY

04 February 2014 :

A court in Bankura district (West Bengal) sentenced to death an occultist, who beheaded a baby and drank its blood as a ritual two-years ago.
Describing it as a rarest of the rare case, the fast track court of Sulagna Dastidar (Chhataraj) held the occultist Lakhikanta Karmakar guilty and awarded him capital punishment.
 
(Sources: PTI, 04/02/2014)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.