{"id":28346,"date":"2018-10-24T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28346"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:26:41","slug":"president-clears-bill-against-witch-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/president-clears-bill-against-witch-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"President clears Bill against witch-hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/kovind-clears-assam-bill-against-witch-hunt\/article24436379.ece\">President clears Bill against witch-hunting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>President\u2019s kovind gives its assent to \u00a0Assam\u2019s Anti- witch-hunting Bill<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. A witch-hunt or witch purge is a search for people labelled \u201cwitches\u201d or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic or mass hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>3. The State received the President\u2019s approval for the Assam witch hunting (Prohibition, prosecution, and protection) Bill, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>4. The key features of the Bill are given below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bill makes every offence under the act \u201ccognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Act prescribes a prison term of up to 7 years and up Rs 5 lakh in fine for calling a person witch.<\/li>\n<li>It also has provisions to come with section 302 of the IPC if someone is killed after being branded a witch.<\/li>\n<li>The punishment for leading a person to suicide may be extended to life imprisonment upto Rs 5 lakh in fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Earlier, Project Prahari was launched in 2001 which blended normal policing with social campaigns to check the menace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President clears Bill against witch-hunting News: President\u2019s kovind gives its assent to \u00a0Assam\u2019s Anti- witch-hunting Bill Important 2. A witch-hunt or witch purge is a search for people labelled \u201cwitches\u201d or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic or mass hysteria. 3. The State received the President\u2019s approval for the Assam witch hunting (Prohibition, prosecution,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/president-clears-bill-against-witch-hunting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President clears Bill against witch-hunting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704657403},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}