Police in eastern Jharkhand state said a gathering of attackers dragged the ladies out of their cottages and beat them to death at around midnight Friday in their town, by most accounts 30 kilometers (20 miles) from state capital Ranchi.
"A gathering (of villagers) dragged the ladies out and beat them to death with sticks, blaming them for honing witchcraft," Ranchi appointee police boss Arun Kumar Singh told AFP by telephone.
Singh included that 24 villagers have been captured over the killings of the ladies, who were for the most part matured somewhere around 45 and 50.
Faith in witchcraft and the mysterious stays boundless in some ruined regions of India.
Now and again ladies are stripped bare as discipline, copied alive or driven from their homes and slaughtered.
A few states including Jharkhand have acquainted exceptional laws with attempt to check wrongdoings against individuals blamed for witchcraft.
Jharkhand Boss Pastor Raghubar Das censured the most recent killings in an announcement on Saturday, asking society to "contemplate over it".
"In the time of learning, this occurrence is pitiful". (AFP)