During a revision of a judgment, the Madras High Court said
that any religious rite which causes pain, suffering and affects the dignity of
a person cannot be justified even it has been followed for a very long period,
and should be considered inhuman attracting penal punishment. The observation was
made while allowing an appeal filed by four women who were punished by a trial
court for their involvement in the exorcism of their daughter-in-law. However
the Judge, taking into consideration the passage of 17 years from the date of
occurrence and the age of the accused, who were all women, modified the
sentence of one-year imprisonment to a term already undergone by them.
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