Why the Anti-Superstition Law is not needed

NO

DRAFT SECTIONS

Relevant
IPC secs.

IPC SECTIONS

Max. Punishment

1

Under the guise
of removing ghosts – tying a person with ropes or chains and beating
the person up with a stick or a whip.

319, 322, 320,
324

(with consent)
causing terrible hurt.

1 year + fine

With harmful
object (with consent)

7 years + fine

Forcing somebody
to drink shoe-soaked water

503

Forcibly make
someone undergo things that he is not legally bound to do

2 years + fine

Exposing someone
to chilli smoke and hanging them from the roof.

299

Deliberately
making someone go through something that can cause their death / harm
(leading to death).

10 years + fine

Tying somebody
with rope or hair, pulling out somebody's hair, burning somebody on
his body or other organs with hot objects.

319, 322, 320,
324

(with consent)
causing terrible hurt.

1 year + fine

With harmful
object (with consent)

7 years + fine

Forcing somebody
to enter into sexual activity in the open.

503

Forcibly make
someone undergo things that he is not legally bound to do

2 years + fine

Forcing somebody
to eat excreta or urine or other similar things.

503

Forcibly make
someone undergo things that he is not legally bound to do

2 years + fine

2

Obtaining money
from a person with a so-called miracle, spreading rumours about such
miracles, and cheating or frightening people with them.

420

Cheating (if
the miracle turns out to be false)

7 years + fine

3

For the purpose
of obtaining supernatural powers, depending on Aghori and immoral practices
like self-injury; exciting and provoking others to go through the same.

Devotion not
an offence according to existing laws.

N.A.

N.A

4

In order to obtain
and search for precious objects, secret wealth, etc. – engaging in activities
like calling on spirits, poltergeists, or doing any inhuman action and/or
human sacrifice for Gods and Goddesses, or attempting such sacrifice
and exciting and provoking people to do the same.

299

Deliberately
making someone go through something that can cause their death / harm
(leading to death).

To instigate someone to commit the crime

Life imprisonment

As per the crme

5

Claiming
to have supernatural powers or making someone believe so or faking so
and terrorisong people of the dire consequences they do not listen to
him

508

Terrorising people
with Heavenly Wrath.

1 yr + fine

6

Branding someone
as a person who is engaged in black magic, ghost busting, tantra-mantra
to stop milk production, to create suspicion about that person bysaying
all this, calling someone to be a bad luck, blaming someone for an epidemic,
by making people believe this, making his life impossible, harassing
him, declaring any person satanic,or an incarnation of satan

499

Defamation

2 years + fine

7

Branding someone
as a person who is engaged in witchcraft, as those calling on spirits,
using this to beating a person up, stripping and parading the person
and banning him from his daily activities

319, 322

117

(with consent)
causing terrible hurt.

Instigating into criminal activity

1 yr + fine

as per crime

8

Using mantras
to call on ghosts or Claiming that by the use of mantras I shall call
on spirits and make them do things, terrorising the general public with such a threat, Using mantra tantra or other things, telling a
person taht I'm releasing you
of all your unexplainable
problems, saying so and making people believe so.

Making people believe that mantra-tantra (witchcraft), blackmagic or
aghori remedies would cure them or else showing them that they would
die and under these clauses scaring someone for their life, hurting
someone monetarily or psychologically,

504

503

Disturbing social
harmony.

Forcibly make someone undergo things that he is not legally bound to
do

2 yrs + fine

2 yrs + fine

9

Stopping someone
from taing medical treatment for a dog, snake, scorpion etc bite, instead
treatingthem with mantratantra, threads and amulets
and other such remedies

299

Deliberately
making someone go through something that can cause their death / harm
(leading to death).

Life
imprisonment + fine

10

Claiming that
I will demonstrate a surcigal treatment with my finger, or I will change
the sex of the child in the mothers womb

413, 416, 420,
299, 322, 324, 602 etc

According to
the damage caused and according to the section applied ( if the claim
proves to be false)

As per the section

11a

Convincing people
that one has special powers or that he is an incarnation or that being
a sacred soul, that you are my wife, husband or lover and having sexual relations
with these people.

416

417

Having sexual relations with someones married partner

1 yr + fine

5 yrs+ fine

11b

Convincing barren
females that using my supernatural powers I could make you bear a child
and having sexual relations with her.

417

Having sexual relations with someones married partner

5 yrs+ fine

12

Claiming that
a mentally retarded person has supernatural powers, making public belive
so and using that person for business or earning money.

420

Cheating (if
the miracle turns out to be false)

7 years + fine