Human sacrifices, coercing a person to perform fire-walk at religious festivals; piercing jaw with rods, etc; pelting stones in the name of banamathi, etc; creating panic in the minds of people by invoking ghosts or mantras; claiming to perform surgery with fingers, or claiming to change the sex of the foetus in the womb. (The Hindu)
Advertisements that offer miracle cures for diseases or promoting and propagating rituals that involve self-inflicted wounds.
Physically harming individuals under the pretext of expelling ghosts.
Preventing individuals from seeking medical care in cases of a dog bite, snake bite, etc and instead offering treatments by mantra etc.
Practices that violate a woman’s dignity like forcing them to stay in isolation; subjecting them to inhuman and humiliating practices such as parading them naked in the name of worship (battle seve); and sexual exploitation by invoking supernatural powers. (The Hindu)
राज्यों से जुड़ी हर खबर और देश-दुनिया की ताजा खबरें पढ़ने के लिए नार्थ इंडिया स्टेट्समैन से जुड़े। साथ ही लेटेस्ट हिन्दी खबर से जुड़ी जानकारी के लिये हमारा ऐप को डाउनलोड करें।
