State welcomes President's assent to anti-witchhunt bill

Guwahati | Monday | 16th July, 2018

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"We welcome that the bill has been made into a law. For all those years in the past, the enforcement agencies had to deal with the crime of witch-hunting without a specific law for it. "I cannot be more happy at the bill becoming a law. As a result there was no deterrent for the particular crime of witch-hunting. The Assam assembly passed the bill unanimously in 2015..