Eminent magician and Magicians Academy president Samala Venu urged the State government to adopt legislation for prevention and eradication of human sacrifice, evil practices and sorcery to protect the gullible rural masses from becoming victims of black magic.
In the wake of suicide of five members of a family, including three girls, belonging to the Gangireddu community, after being branded sorcerers in Kandugula village of Huzurabad mandal recently, the district police at the behest of DIG Ravi Varma sought the help of magician Samala Venu, who has been crusading against the practice of witchcraft in the State through his magic shows.
The Karimnagar district police, in association with the Magicians Academy and Telangana Magicians Association, organised an awareness programme in Kandugula village in Huzurabad mandal on Saturday. On this occasion, magician Samala Venu urged the State government to bring in legislation to check the practice of sorcery on the lines of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. The practice of sorcery and killing people in the name of witchcraft was very high in Telangana, with more than 5,000 lives taken, he said. .He urged the government to bring in legislation to curb the practice.
, He told the people that there was no sorcery in the world and it was only magic trick, explaining the tricks like flowers coming out of a coconut and red colour oozing out of cut lemon. It was scienceand there was no witchcraft. Huzurabad ACP M. Ravinder Reddy, magician B. B. Shaw and his team members were present.
