Exorcism and black magic in Kerala

The government of Kerala has plans to bring forward a legislation to put an end to black magic and exorcism and also launch a massive awareness campaign against superstition because of increasing incidences of such practices. It is in the wake of recurrence of tragic sorcery cases that the government has drawn up plans to bring in legislation to ban these gory rituals.
It would probably be a bill drawn up on the lines of the Anti-Superstition bill in Maharashtra.
It seems in October last two persons had carried out black magic on a 21-year-old woman in order to get rid of a physical ailment. The victim had burn marks on her body and it is believed that she had been tortured in the course of the rituals.
The rituals included burning camphor on her palms and keeping a bunch of 50 lit incense sticks under her chin after which she was asked to inhale the smoke.
The girl was a native of Vadasserikkara in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district and the two persons involved in this heinous activity were her uncle and his son-in-law and the police have arrested both and have been remanded to judicial custody.