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The Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013 is a criminal law act for the state of Maharashtra, India, originally drafted by anti-superstition activist and the founder of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), Narendra Dabholkar (1945-2013) in 2003.〔 The act criminalises practices related to black magic, human sacrifices, use of magic remedies to cure ailments and other such acts which exploit people's superstitions.〔 The bill was initially promulgated on 24 August 2013, and was formally introduced in the winter session of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Nagpur in December 2013.〔 ==Overview== The current bill has 12 clauses which criminalise only the following acts:〔 * Assault, torture, forced ingestion of human excreta, forced sexual acts, branding etc. on the pretext of exorcising ghosts from an allegedly possessed person. * Claiming and broadcasting the ability to perform miracles and defrauding or terrorising people by such means. * Carrying out or encouraging acts which endanger life or cause grievous injury in order to gain supernatural powers. * Carrying out or encouraging inhuman acts or human sacrifice in quest of some bounty or reward. * Creating the impression that a person has supernatural powers and compelling people to follow his/her orders. * Accusing a person of practising black magic or being an incarnation of ''saitan'', blaming him/her of causing diseases or misfortune, and harassing the person. * Accusing a person of practising black magic, parading him/her naked and hindering the person's activities. * Claiming the ability to invoke ghosts, causing a panic or intimidating others by threatening to invoke ghosts, or creating the impression of possession, preventing the person from seeking medical treatment, and compelling him/her to inhuman acts. * Preventing a person from seeking medical advice in case of dog, snake, or scorpion bite, and compelling him/her to take magic remedies. * Claiming to perform surgery by fingers (psychic surgery) and claiming to change the sex of an unborn foetus. * Claiming to be related to a person from a previous incarnation and coaxing them to sexual acts, and claiming to have supernatural power to cure an impotent woman and having sexual relation with the woman. * Claiming a mentally challenged person to be having supernatural powers and using such a person for personal gain. Although the human sacrifice is already considered murder in India, encouraging human sacrifice has been criminalised in this law.〔 Each infraction carries a minimum sentence of six months and a maximum sentence of seven years, including a fine ranging from to . The offences are non-bailable and cognisable.〔 The law directs the appointment and training of vigilance officers, to investigate and report these crimes to the local police station. The ranks of these officers are to be greater than the rank of a police inspector.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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