MOGA: An ‘ exorcist ’ sarpanch of a Punjab village killing a teenager girl by hitting with hot tongs in the name of getting her rid of ‘evil spirits’ has got the rationalists, religious personalities to make the villagers stand up against the sorcerers . The rationalist organization gave a clarion call to boycott the exorcists and come out of the clutches of superstitions by adopting scientific approach to avoid recurrence of such incidents. Moved by the teenager’ plight the hundreds of villagers vowed to avoid sorcerers.

Rationalist society tarksheel society Bharat aiming to spread awareness against pliability of masses in getting indulged in superstitions organized a social congregation at village Bhinder Kalan where society founder Megh Raj Mittar exhorted people to avoid exorcists to get solace from various problems plaguing the masses rather should face these in scientific manner. The society got along a magician, who used the skills in getting people come out against exorcists.

Megh Raj finding fault for these social problems in government said “let the state government come forward in enforcing various acts of drugs and magic remedies act 1955 and these inhuman incidents could be minimized”. He said the exorcists not only loot the poor people but also go to the extent of killing innocents to prove their points of having celestial powers”.

Former head priest of Harmandar Sahib(supreme temporal seat of Sikhs) Giani Jagtar Singh Jachak, who was also present, asked the villagers to get rid of exorcists to make their lives easy.

Veerpal Kaur of village Manawan was not keeping well. Girl’ father Malkit Singh got her to different quacks but the girl got not much relief. Malkit Singh on August 22 got the girl to Pal Kaur at Bhinder Kalan, who advised that Veerpal is in the grip of ‘evil spirits’ and taking along her husband Darbara Singh, tantric Mukhtiar Singh started beating her with tongs in the presence of many persons till she breathed her last. Moga police had arrested Pal Kaur, her husband and two others and the four are cooling heels in jail.