PATHANAMTHITTA: There are reports of witchcraft in Malayalapuzha again. The complaint is that some natives of Pathanapuram were locked up for not paying money for the pujas conducted. They were later released by DYFI activists and the locals.
The puja was held at the house of Shobana, who was earlier arrested in a similar case. She had locked up three people including a seven-year-old boy.
The information is that this is the family of the accused in a fraud case. They were locked up for five days and were brutally harassed, said one of the women. Shobana told them that she would cut the baby and keep it in a leaf.
The police had earlier arrested Shobana for using children to occult rituals at her centre named ‘Vasanthi Madom’ at Malayalapuzha. She was arrested then after the video of a boy collapsing surfaced then. The residents of the area had vandalised the centre later.