Tarksheel Society seeks examine on advertisements claiming magical treatments
Amritsar, February 13
At the same time as a regulation is in place to examine unscrupulous components from spreading superstition and providing magical therapeutic, it’s seldom used as is obvious from the variety of such ads. Tarksheel Society in its bid to place a examine on such practices and promote the facility of logic and reasoning has approached the native MLAs to take up the matter with the state authorities.
Commercials claiming quick and guaranteed aid in some medical situations are being printed nearly each day in native newspapers and even seen painted on partitions alongside roads.
Such ads are banned below the Medicine and Magic Treatments (Objectional Commercials) Act, 1954.
Even religion healers who declare to carry magical powers and exploit gullible persons are doing their enterprise with out fearing any motion. The enterprise of those self-proclaimed godmen, tantriks and babas, even the brand new class of Christian preachers who declare to have a remedy for nearly every thing, is booming.
These self-styled godmen woo residents with the assistance of such ads in newspapers, posters pasted on partitions at public locations and vidoes circulated on social media platforms.
Aside from providing options for bodily illnesses, the practitioners additionally declare to resolve emotional, psychological and private issues.
Sumeet Singh who’s related to Tarksheel Society, mentioned, “There may be want for a stringent regulation to examine individuals who declare to have godly powers and declare to remedy all types of bodily and psychological issues.”
Singh mentioned they’ve not too long ago submitted a memorandum to the MLAs of the ruling occasion and requested them to deliver a laws to cease the exploitation of public. He mentioned the administration should provoke a drive to crack down on such individuals below the Medicine and Magic Treatments Act, 1954.