Rourkela: The blot of ‘black magic’ is not leaving Sundargarh district’s trail as black magic related crimes are reported from various places from the district in regular intervals.
In the latest development, one Gurucharan Mund (35) of Banki village under Lahunipara, nearly 70 km away from here, hacked a septuagenarian Sarang Munda to death over doubts that the latter was practicing black magic on his family.
Gurucharan, who married ten years ago is still issueless. And he believed that it was the result of his deceased neighbour Sarang’s sorcery. On several occasions, they had fought over this allegation. The place is one of the remotest areas of the district and nearly inaccessible.
Both came front to front Wednesday and Gurucharan started abusing Sarang with foul language. When the latter objected to this, he threatened him of dire consequences. After Sarang challenged him, an enraged Gurucharan went inside his house and came back with his axe.
Soon he attacked and hacked him to death. Later he surrendered before the police. Bonai SDPO Swaraj K Pradhan, who had been to the spot with the scientific team from Rourkela, said, “We have visited the place and have taken pieces of evidence from there and the accused has surrendered before us.”
PNN
