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Demand for anti -superstition law gains momentum

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Seven people including a woman in police net for their alleged involvement in forcing one Halorsing Kharumnuid to eat dog excreta for allegedly practising witchcraft, appear at the SP office on Monday. (ST)
Seven people including a woman in police net for their alleged involvement in forcing one Halorsing Kharumnuid to eat dog excreta for allegedly practising witchcraft, appear at the SP office on Monday. (ST)

 SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Peoples Human Rights Council (MPHRC) has strongly demanded the State government to enact a Special Anti-Superstition Law in a bid to contain and annihilate harmful superstitious and other instances of witch-hunting used as a ploy by the unscrupulous members of society.

“Since there is a rising numbers of superstitions and other witch-hunting violent cases, which many a times are gross human rights abuses, the enactment of a Special Anti-Superstition Law is very important because as a society we are still stuck with the old belief systems and rituals” MPHRC Chairperson Dino DG Dympep said.

He mentioned that though beliefs in religious practices are part of every citizen’s fundamental rights, however, adhering to barbaric and evil rituals is not considered part of any religious beliefs.

Highlighting on the bane of such belief systems, Dympep stressed on education being the only resort to steer clear of such vices which should be essentially condemned and discouraged by society at large.

In the absence of an explicit law to deal with such cases, the MPHRC chairman said that the State Government must set up a Special Cell to contend with the issue in order to end these societal vices from the root.

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