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Anjana Meenakshi

‘Witchcraft’ and prejudice: Why a Dalit Christian couple was ‘beaten for 8 hours’ in Telangana

“They didn’t ask, they threatened us till we [falsely] confessed,” said Muthangi Amrutha, a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kolkur village of Sadashivpet mandal in Telangana’s Sangareddy district. 

At around 8 am on June 17, Amrutha, 35, and her husband Yadayya, 40, were accosted outside their local church by eight members of the congregation. Amrutha told TNM they were accused of practising witchcraft – chetabadulu.

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