30 arrested in Prayagraj for practicing exorcism on women
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Prayagraj: Thirty people have been arrested in Prayagraj on Sunday for allegedly performing an exorcism on women.
Deputy Inspector Arvind Kumar Singh, who reached the spot saw that people were performing rituals with vermilion and lemon.
The police tried to intervene in the exercise and asked the accused to stop, but to no avail.
Following this, the police took them all to the station.
As per the Police, the accused, who were arrested in the Daraganj area are residents of Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh and Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh.
They conducted the rituals at the banks of the Sangam, and would allegedly beat women and pull their hair under the pretext of casting away evil spirits from them, the police said.
Some people alerted the police said that the accused were seen playing the drums while they had tied the hands and feet of the women and beat them with a rope.
The accused have been booked under sections 151/107/116 of the CRPC and all of them have been sent to jail after being produced before a magistrate.