Witch Hunting A Curse In Rajasthan The Hindu A 40 year old dalit woman was branded a witch, stripped, beaten up mercilessly and made to eat faeces in kadera village of ajmer on august 2. she was forced to walk on embers which were shoved. The rajasthan prevention of witch hunting bill, 2015, tabled in the assembly, provides for life imprisonment if witch hunting causes death, and imprisonment up to five years and fine for.
Labelled As Witches Women In Rajasthan Continue To Face Torture And The rajasthan prevention of witch hunting bill, tabled in the assembly, provides for life imprisonment if witch hunting causes death, and imprisonment up to five years and a fine for practising. Ms mishra then points to a pattern in witch hunting which – as per official records has claimed the lives of 7 women in rajasthan between 2016 22: “most of the time, those labelled as witches are widows, single, middle aged or older women, since they seem to be easy prey,” said shakuntala pamecha, founder and director of the rajsamand jan vikas sansthan, who has been working on this. Rajasthan passed a law banning witch hunting in 2015. despite similar new laws in several states, ahluwalia, who has worked on about 90 cases of witch hunting since 1986, says the impact of. The highest number of 25 cases were registered under the rajasthan prevention of witch hunting act, 2015, in bhilwara district, followed by 15 in udaipur district, five in ajmer, and four each in.
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