Editing Chhattisgarh (section)

=== Witchcraft ===
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[[File:Mission Against Witchcraft.jpg|thumb|Social Mission Against Blind Faith|alt=|right]]To bring about social reforms and with a view to discourage undesirable social practices, Chhattisgarh government has enacted the Chhattisgarh Tonhi Atyachar (Niwaran) Act, 2005 against witchery.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} Much has to be done on the issue of law enforcement by judicial authorities to protect women in this regard, bringing such persecution to an end.<ref name="womennewsnetwork.net" />

Some sections of tribal population of Chhattisgarh state believe in [[witchcraft]].<ref name="womennewsnetwork.net">{{cite web|title=India: Protective Laws Fall Short for Women Charged with Witchcraft|url=http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/03/21/witchcraft-india-89/|access-date=22 July 2011|date=21 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702111614/http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/03/21/witchcraft-india-89/|archive-date=2 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Women are believed to have access to supernatural forces and are accused of being witches (''tonhi'') often to settle personal scores.

As of 2010, they are still hounded out of villages on the basis of flimsy accusations by male village sorcerers paid to do so by villagers with personal agendas, such as property and goods acquisition.<ref name="womennewsnetwork.net" /> According to [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] Channel's investigations, those accused are fortunate if they are only verbally bullied and shunned or exiled from their village.