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...eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared in their dreams promising hidden treasures. Karmakar killed Manju in Atapur village in Jharkhand state in April. The following month, police dug up the remains of two sisters, aged 18 and 13, in Bihar, dismembered with a ceremonial sword and offered to Kali by their father. Last week on the outskirts of Bombay, maize seller Anil Lakshmikant Singh, 33, beheaded his neighbor's nine-year-old son to save his marriage on the advice of a tantric. Said Singh: "He promised that a human...
...Mangalsen have fueled suspicions that they have received training and aid from India's equally brutal communist rebels. Most of the Maoists' political leaders, including the group's founder, former agricultural student Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, have found shelter across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times?were the first demonstration of their newly acquired...
Their admiration was based on Seshan's whip-cracking achievements in areas such as Vaishali, an electoral district in the violence-prone Bihar state, where a federal by-election was held last month. By seeking to revoke the election, Seshan forced both Congress and opposition candidates to abide by election rules on spending limits. Admits Atal Behari Vajpayee, a legislator of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party: "He put the fear of God into politicians." In the end, the by-election was held peacefully, and the candidate of a small local party was declared the winner...
...charged at the time that Gandhi, who usually kept out of the crush and was shielded by a phalanx of commandos, "had lost touch with the people." It was a mistake -- as Rajiv saw it -- that he did not repeat. While pressing the flesh in the northern state of Bihar on May 5, he spoke about the change. "I used to campaign like this when I was secretary-general of the Congress, in 1984, but when I was Prime Minister I was hijacked by the system," he said. "There is still a threat, of course; it hasn't come down...
...more than 14,000 anti-Harijan atrocities, including 759 rapes and 479 murders, were registered. Countless others went unrecorded because victims fear the police, who are themselves frequently the perpetrators. Often cruelties against Harijans are considered just part of local custom. In parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, an untouchable couple can consummate their marriage only after the landlord has deflowered the bride...