“Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024: A historic step against Religious Proselytization”, My Ind, March 1, 2024:
“In what can be termed a “historic” move of the Government of Assam under Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024 was passed in the Assam Legislative Assembly in a voice vote on the last day of the recently-concluded Budget Session. The Bill aims to eradicate unscientific healing practices undertaken with a sinister motive to exploit poor and innocent people.
Once the Bill is enacted, the commission of all acts of healing practices and magical healing in the name of curing “incurable diseases” by any person with the objective of exploiting common people will be prohibited.
It defines healing practices as a “traditional holistic approach to healing the body, mind and spirit of a human being with traditional medicine and art, including any system, treatment, diagnosis, or practice for the assessment, cure, relief, or correction of any human disease, ailment, deformity, injury or enhancement of a condition or appearance…….”
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