The Bill has proposed to ban made snana (rolling over banana leaves with food left over by Brahmins) at Kukke Subrahmanya temple in Dakshina Kannada district. However, it has not banned astrology or vaastu.

The Karnataka Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the much-delayed and debated Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifices and other Inhuman Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017, popularly known as the Anti-Superstition Bill.

The Bill has proposed to ban made snana (rolling over banana leaves with food left over by Brahmins) at Kukke Subrahmanya temple in Dakshina Kannada district. However, it has not banned astrology or vaastu.

Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra said, “The issue of either banning or regulating vaastu and astrology was discussed, but no decision was taken.”

The Bill would be tabled in the next session of the legislature, he told presspersons after the Cabinet meeting.

The Bill has been drafted on the lines of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifices and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. It has provisions to deal strongly with cruel practices, such as human sacrifice, witchcraft, exorcism, parading women in the naked, and sexual exploitation by invoking supernatural powers.

The Cabinet cleared the Bill after it was scrutinised by the committee of the Law Department. The committee had suggested some cosmetic changes and there was “nothing in the draft that would come in the way of religious sentiments.”