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Morgan House, Kalimpong: A colonial era mansion built in the typical British architectural style of a Victorian rectory in the early 1930s, it is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in India. The building was built to commemorate the wedding of an indigo plantation owner with a jute baron by the name of George Morgan.
Bhanwari Devi was born in poverty in a village in Kishangarh block of Ajmer district, in India's Rajasthan State.Her parents worked as daily wage labourers; her father was also employed in the State's medical and health department.
Numerous unexplained and mysterious hair and braid chopping incidents were being reported across India between June and October 2017. The first widely reported incident was on June 23, 2017, when ABP News reported a woman from Bikaner District, Rajasthan, had her hair chopped allegedly by a 'witch' while she was asleep at night.
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide [1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family [2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018.Ten people—ranging in age from 15 to 57 years old—were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the 80-year-old grandmother, was strangled.
On 18 August 2024, the Supreme Court of India took suo moto cognizance of the case. [136] A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud heard the matter on 20 August 2024 and constituted a National Task Force (NTF) to ensure workplace safety for medical professionals. [137]
Protests demanding immediate action were staged in various parts of India. [19] Local authorities of Udaipur imposed a 24-hour curfew and blocked internet access across the state of Rajasthan. [3] [20] The central government deployed the National Investigation Agency, India's primary counterterrorism unit, to investigate the incident. [2]
A Book named "The Mysterious Killer of Class 2 Student" written by B. R. Sekar has been published on August 5, 2018. [56] The book contains a similar plot to the incident.The story analyses all aspects of the real case and concludes that it was an accident rather than a Murder.
The initial reports were contradicted by both the Rajasthan police and the Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Right investigating the issue. They claimed that the beating was unlikely due to a caste-angle. [9] [10] On August 19, 2022, Dalit groups staged protests and demonstrations demanding justice for the victim's family. [11]