<p>Hazaribag: A sixty-year-old widow was assaulted by a group of villagers in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Monday.</p>.<p>One person has been arrested in this regard on Monday after an FIR was lodged against seven people by the victim on Sunday, a police officer said.</p>.<p>All the accused have been identified and a hunt was on to apprehend the remaining six others, who were absconding, the police officer said.</p>.<p>The villagers called an 'ojha' (witch doctor) from nearby Koderma district, who branded the woman as a 'witch' and asked them to oust her from the village on Friday evening.</p>.<p>The ojha had allegedly forced the woman to consume some herbs and forced her to admit she was practising witchcraft.</p>.Jharkhand govt launches country’s maiden mining tourism initiative, inks pact with Coal India arm.<p>In the FIR lodged by the victim at Barhi police station on Sunday night, she accused the villagers of shaving her head and parading her in the village.</p>.<p>Feeling humiliated over the action of the accused, the woman went to the Barhi police station and lodged an FIR.</p>.<p>She told police that by ousting her from the village, some of the villagers, whom she named in the FIR, were trying to grab her property.</p>.<p>Ajit Kumar Vimal, SDPO Barhi, told reporters that one person has been arrested and the others are absconding.</p>.<p>"We are investigating the case", he said, adding that the guilty persons will not be spared.</p>.<p>Police are conducting raids to apprehend the accused persons, the SDPO added. PTI COR BS RG</p>
<p>Hazaribag: A sixty-year-old widow was assaulted by a group of villagers in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Monday.</p>.<p>One person has been arrested in this regard on Monday after an FIR was lodged against seven people by the victim on Sunday, a police officer said.</p>.<p>All the accused have been identified and a hunt was on to apprehend the remaining six others, who were absconding, the police officer said.</p>.<p>The villagers called an 'ojha' (witch doctor) from nearby Koderma district, who branded the woman as a 'witch' and asked them to oust her from the village on Friday evening.</p>.<p>The ojha had allegedly forced the woman to consume some herbs and forced her to admit she was practising witchcraft.</p>.Jharkhand govt launches country’s maiden mining tourism initiative, inks pact with Coal India arm.<p>In the FIR lodged by the victim at Barhi police station on Sunday night, she accused the villagers of shaving her head and parading her in the village.</p>.<p>Feeling humiliated over the action of the accused, the woman went to the Barhi police station and lodged an FIR.</p>.<p>She told police that by ousting her from the village, some of the villagers, whom she named in the FIR, were trying to grab her property.</p>.<p>Ajit Kumar Vimal, SDPO Barhi, told reporters that one person has been arrested and the others are absconding.</p>.<p>"We are investigating the case", he said, adding that the guilty persons will not be spared.</p>.<p>Police are conducting raids to apprehend the accused persons, the SDPO added. PTI COR BS RG</p>