A five-year-old boy was thrown into a well to death allegedly by his step-grandmother to avenge humiliation committed by the victim's parents in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district, police said.
A 26-year-old woman was thrashed and tied to a tree in a semi-naked condition in Jharkhand's Giridih district, police said on Thursday. The woman was rescued by police on Thursday morning and was admitted to a local hospital.
A 19-year-old woman was allegedly beaten up, her hair chopped off, and then paraded on the orders of village panchayat members in Jharkhand's Palamu district, after she reportedly refused to get married, police said on Monday.
An 82-year-old man allegedly died of cardiac arrest on Sunday when police raided his house at night in search of his son, an accused in a cattle smuggling case, in Jharkhand's Khunti district, the policesaid.