Over 55 women wake up to find their hair mysteriously chopped off

There is an outbreak of “hair chopping spirits "in an India viliages. This has has caused many to live in fear.



The police has start investigation to the weird outbreak. Police reveal that at least 55 women across five Indian states have on countless occasions complained and reported having to wake up to find their hair mysteriously scraped off.

On Wednesday, four new cases were reported on New Delhi’s outskirts

“We heard her cries, and when we rushed in, she was lying on the floor unconscious,” said Rohit Yadav, whose 55-year-old mother Monesh Devi fell victim in July in Delhi.

“Her chopped off hair was lying next to her.”

In Agra, a  65-year-old woman murdered by a mob was labelled a witch and accused of using sorcery to slice braids, despite no cases being reported in the city.

Dinesh Chandra Dubey, Agra police chief, told AFP that “She was beaten after they found her loitering in a nearby village. Someone accused her of being a witch and later linked her to the hair-cutting incidents,”

The assaults are being treated as crimes by the Delhi police department.

“Counsellors said they could be suffering from disorders and could have done it themselves; but our investigations are broad-based.