Assam Govt will take action against those who heal through magical healing

Cabinet’s assent to the Bill in this regard

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

Guwahati (Assam) – The Assam Government has come down hard on ‘magical healing’ in the name of treatment. The Cabinet of Ministers has passed a Bill to prevent such treatments. The Bill provides for strict penal action against practitioners of ‘magical healing’. This decision was taken in the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The State cabinet has approved the proposed Bill which seeks to prohibit and eliminate practices of magical healing in the name of treatment of some congenital diseases like deafness, dumbness, blindness, physical deformities, autism (which mainly hinders communication in society), etc.

At the meeting of the #AssamCabinet we resolved to

👉 Introduce a bill to prohibit the practice of magical healing

👉 ₹259 cr for a Wildlife Safari and Rescue Centre at Namdang Reserve Forest

👉 Selected 10 cities/towns for a dedicated sustainable development program

1/2 pic.twitter.com/fuyVSQOXPH

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) February 10, 2024

📌 Assam state government to enact a law to punish magical healing practitioners

👉 The cabinet assents to the above bill#AssamCabinet #Healing #healthcare pic.twitter.com/9vWbK58mZg

— Sanatan Prabhat (@SanatanPrabhat) February 11, 2024

Chief Minister Sarma said that the Assam Government has decided to bring ‘Assam Healing’ (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024 whereby any person found guilty of committing the illegal act in the name of treatment/magic healing shall be punished with imprisonment and a fine. This will completely ban magic healing treatments.