The Karnataka Government on Wednesday Sep 27,2017 approved the Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017, four years after the idea was supported by chief minister Siddaramaiah.
The bill, which is set to be tabled in the upcoming assembly session in November, classifies 16 practices as inhuman, including assaulting a person on the pretext of exorcism; claiming to change the sex of a foetus in the womb; ‘betthale seve’, where women are paraded naked; ‘urulu seve’, where people are made to roll over on leaves with leftover food; and ‘Sidi’, where people are hung from trees using hooks drilled into their backs.
The move to regulate such practices came in the backdrop of the Maharashtra government passing a similar Act in 2013.
Various drafts, including one by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), were under consideration since 2013, and were scrutinised by the Law Commission of Karnataka and a law department committee.
However, the version approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday has one significant departure from those drafts — it no longer has the word superstition in the title. Additionally, a clarification in the bill exempts vaastu from its purview
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