silchar about 2000 people looked on as 80odd tea workers drank and danced around 55yearold jawaharlal mura his hands and legs tied up with rope chanting jai ma kali before lynching him for allegedly practising black magic on thursday afternoon the attack happened at narainpur tea estate in assams cachar district 80km from here we saw in our dreams that mura was a witch and we killed him in accordance with the desires of goddess kali an irate villager later told police cachar sp diganta bora said this is a case of witchhunting we have arrested 11 people including three women in connection with the killing bora said the residents of kalabeelbasti an outgarden of narainpur tea estate accused mura of being a witch and held him responsible for the illnesses and deaths of some persons in the garden on thursday afternoon the frenzied mob played out a curious ritual before killing the man they had branded a witch they caught hold of mura and tied up his hands and legs with rope they then bathed him smeared vermillion on his forehead and performed a puja at kalis thaan altar under an old banyan tree in the tea garden the men and women then drank and danced around him invoking the goddesss name before lynching him his body was later buried in a hillock a little distance from his home on friday muras body was exhumed and sent to the silchar medical collage hospital for autopsy