By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Calling for a new anti-superstition law in the State, the Opposition on Sunday demanded that the accused involved in the killing of three people at Smit should be booked under the Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA) pending the enactment of this new law.
“We need to have a new anti-superstition law to prevent the reoccurrence of such incidents,” Meghalaya People’s Forum (MPF) spokesperson and UDP leader Paul Lyngdoh said.
“A most regressive trend that shows how 175 years of modern education and Christianity have not made the desired impact on a society that is deeply suspicious and divided in lines of economy, education level, religion and religious denomination, clan among others,” Lyngdoh stated.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Roshan Warjri has also strongly condemned the killing of three people at Smit.
“It is a sheer act of barbarism,” Warjri said.
She suggested said that the church bodies, all faiths, traditional bodies and educational institutions should deliberate on the matter.
“We need to put a stop to this. We cannot allow people to take away lives on the allegation of practicing witchcraft,” the Home Minister said.
