Evil spirit: Girl beaten to death by mother-daughter
Bengaluru, May 5: Byappanahalli police have arrested a woman and her daughter on charges of beating a minor girl to death from a metal pipe for driving away an evil spirit from the girl.
Suspecting that a 13-year-old girl is possessed by the evil spirit, a woman and her daughter have beaten the girl with metal pipe. Severely injured girl succumbed to the injuries, according to police.
The arrested are identified as Pramila Sagayam and her daughter Ramya S of Vignana Nagar near Byappanahalli. As per the complaint from the victim’s mother Gayatri, the accused have tortured the girl for the same reason a few months back.
It is said that Gayatri has reportedly admitted to Pramila that her daughter is obsessed with watching television and mobile phones constantly. Then, Pramila was reportedly said that ‘she was suffering from an evil spirit due to which she has been behaving like so’ and made Gayatri to believe that she would free the girl from the evil spirit. In order to ‘free’ the girl from evil spirit, Gayatri had left her daughter with Pramila. In order to make the girl free from the ghost, both the accused have beaten the girl with iron rod due to which, the girl succumbed to the injuries. But Pramila warned Gayatri not to disclose this issue with anybody. But Pramila herself has lodged a complaint against Gayatri alleging that the latter has killed her daughter. But when the police interrogated Gayatri and checked the wound marks on the body of the girl were not matched, the police arrested Pramila and enquired to spill the beans. The police said that the accused has tried to mislead the police by saying that Gayatri herself has killed her daughter upsetting over her TV mania.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
