Witch-Hunting Practices Continue to Persist as Superstition Supersedes Constitutional Morality, Laments Supreme Court

Supreme Court on Witch-Hunting: Reason Must Defeat Superstition, Conviction in 1998 Murder Case Upheld Supreme Court Raises Serious Concern Over Witch-Hunting The Supreme Court has strongly condemned the continuing practice of witch-hunting in parts of Indian society while dismissing the appeal of Balku Oram against his conviction for the 1998 murder of Puni Naik in Odisha. A Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice N.V. Anjaria observed that superstition,…