Srinagar, April 27 A self-styled mystic was arrested by J&K Police on Saturday after he axed a 60-year-old woman to death in Handwara area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir.
Police said that a self-styled mystic named Ghulam Rasool alias Lassa Bab, axed a 60-year-old woman to death in his room in Chogal village of Handwara tehsil on Friday.
The self-styled mystic has been arrested and booked under relevant sections of law. Doctors have said that the so-called mystic is a madman.
The incident has sent shock waves throughout the Valley as credulous people, mostly women, seek favours from such people.
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