Death of two child women in Madhya Pradesh: Faith healer arrested for branding infants with scorching iron rod
3 min readBy Express News Service
BHOPAL: The Singhpur police on Monday arrested ‘religion healer’ Ramvatia Charmakar in reference to the demise of two tribal infants.
The infants died after Ramvatia singed them with a scorching iron rod and black bangles to treatment them of pneumonia.
The infants — two and three months old– died on February 1 and February 4 at two totally different hospitals in Shahdol district.
The Shahdol district superintendent of police Kumar Pratik mentioned a probe might be performed to look into the potential for the involvement of others within the case and motion might be taken accordingly.
Just a few hours earlier than her arrest Ramvatia admitted earlier than journalists in her native Samatpur village that she carried out Daagna in a bid to “cure” the newborn women in Kathautiya and Samatpur village after being requested by their mother and father.
“It’s not just me, but 10 other women in both the villages, including my sisters-in-law, who are furthering this age-old superstitious tradition of Daagna. But what can we do, it’s the parents who call us to their homes and get Daagna on their infant babies done. If I’m being arrested for it, why are the police sparing the parents of two infants, who called us to their homes and got the act of singing done with their babies. It’s only after clearance from village panchayat sarpanchs and secretaries that we venture into villages on the call of parents of infants,” Ramvatia instructed journalists at her home in Samatpur village.
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She additionally claimed that by no means had any ASHA employee or every other authorities employees come to them, asking to cease the observe of Daagna.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reviews mentioned that two to 3 extra infants (who had been poked in stomach with scorching objects by religion healer ladies within the current previous) have been admitted at Shahdol district hospital and Shahdol Medical College Hospital. The situation of one of many infants, aged round two months, is acknowledged to be essential.
BHOPAL: The Singhpur police on Monday arrested ‘religion healer’ Ramvatia Charmakar in reference to the demise of two tribal infants.
The infants died after Ramvatia singed them with a scorching iron rod and black bangles to treatment them of pneumonia.
The infants — two and three months old– died on February 1 and February 4 at two totally different hospitals in Shahdol district.
The Shahdol district superintendent of police Kumar Pratik mentioned a probe might be performed to look into the potential for the involvement of others within the case and motion might be taken accordingly.
Just a few hours earlier than her arrest Ramvatia admitted earlier than journalists in her native Samatpur village that she carried out Daagna in a bid to “cure” the newborn women in Kathautiya and Samatpur village after being requested by their mother and father.
“It’s not just me, but 10 other women in both the villages, including my sisters-in-law, who are furthering this age-old superstitious tradition of Daagna. But what can we do, it’s the parents who call us to their homes and get Daagna on their infant babies done. If I’m being arrested for it, why are the police sparing the parents of two infants, who called us to their homes and got the act of singing done with their babies. It’s only after clearance from village panchayat sarpanchs and secretaries that we venture into villages on the call of parents of infants,” Ramvatia instructed journalists at her home in Samatpur village.
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She additionally claimed that by no means had any ASHA employee or every other authorities employees come to them, asking to cease the observe of Daagna.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reviews mentioned that two to 3 extra infants (who had been poked in stomach with scorching objects by religion healer ladies within the current previous) have been admitted at Shahdol district hospital and Shahdol Medical College Hospital. The situation of one of many infants, aged round two months, is acknowledged to be essential.
