Branded ‘witch’ and ousted from home, mom united with daughter after 10 years in Odisha
Madhumita Singh, a 13-year-old girl from a remote tribal village in the Mayurbhanj district, had resigned herself to the belief that she would never see her mother again. Tragedy struck her early on when her father passed away in 2014 when she was just three years old. Living in an area still gripped by superstitions and witch-hunting practices, Madhumita was separated from her mother, who had been unjustly labeled a witch and expelled from the village by her own family.