In a gruesome incident, a woman in a Bihar village was on Wednesday branded a witch and burnt alive.
Police said residents of a village in Khagaria district first publicly flogged Renu Devi for allegedly practicing witchcraft and then burnt her to death.
The police lodged a complaint and began investigations to apprehend the guilty.
In the past six months, over half a dozen cases were reported across Bihar where women were humiliated, tortured, beaten or forced to walk naked.