The proposed bill seeks to "prohibit and eliminate practices of magical healing in the name of treatment of some congenital diseases such as deafness, dumbness, blindness, physical deformity and autism".
To stop magical healing in the name of treatment, the Assam cabinet has approved the Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024. Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma Cabinet Approves Bill To Ban Magical Healing Practices.
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Assam cabinet proposes a bill to ban magical healing practices in the name of treatment. The bill aims to provide relief to victims of magical healing and proposes strong punitive action against healers extorting the poor. Other decisions by the cabinet include reforms to the state municipal cadres, creation of new posts in the Assam Secretariat Service, and strengthening of the Assam Village Defence Organisation.
The Assam Cabinet today took a slew of decisions, including the setting up of an open zoo and introducing a bill to prevent magic healing involving tantra, mantras, hypnosis, etc.