Jharkhand High Court took suo motu cognizance of the recent murder of five persons of a family in Gumla and asked the state government to wake up from its slumber to to tackle the scourge of witch-hunting, directing the state DGP and chief secretary on Thursday to furnish a proper report of the February incident before the next hearing on March 18.
A bench of Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan observed, “The sState should awake from its slumber.” It asked Jharkhand Legal Services Authority for a ground report by dispatching a team to the affected village. It also asked the state government to apprise it on steps taken to curb such a social menace.