Geeta Chik Baraik's husband in a police complaint alleged that a group of women of Sikariatand village came to their residence yesterday and asked his wife to accompany them and "cure" a sick boy in the locality.
When she refused to go along with them saying that she was not a doctor, the women accused her of practising witchcraft and blamed her for the child's illness, they said.
The women began to shower blows on Baraik, killing her on the spot, police said, adding there was no arrest as yet.