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Fight against leprosy in India stymied by regressive laws
Saturday, January 28, 2017 IST
Fight against leprosy in India stymied by regressive laws


More than 63 years since the first World Leprosy Day turned into celebrated on January 30, 1954, the combat against the disorder in India is stymied by way of regressive legal guidelines. An affected person is still refused a ticket via a railway professional, and using his or her personal car too may be out of the question.

Bizarrely, archaic legal guidelines in India maintain to deal with sufferers with leprosy as untouchables. This despite scientific evidence that it could spread simplest from ‘close and repeated contact with nostril and mouth droplets from a person with untreated leprosy’ and that an affected person becomes non-contagious after just a week of remedy.

The disease makes grounds for annulment of marriage and divorce below the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939; the Indian Divorce Act, 1869; the unique Marriage Act, 1954; and the Hindu Adoption and renovation Act, 1956.

“people suffering from leprosy are not authorised to tour in public shipping with the equal freedom of others. section 56 of the Railways Act, 1989 and segment eight(four) of the Motor motors Act, 1988 are resorted to, so as to deny people affected by leprosy the right to tour in railways or the proper to gain a using licence, as relevant,” a document through the law fee of India says.

primary rights along with the ones to contest for, and maintain, civic posts continue to be violated underneath state Municipal and Panchayati Raj Acts. In a number of those laws, leprosy patients are put within the equal basket as the ones “of unsound mind”.

As an instance, the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950, says, “No individual will be qualified for election as a Councillor of a Municipality if such person… has been adjudged through an able court docket to be of unsound thoughts or is leprosy or a tuberculosis patient.”

Tarun Das, Trustee, Sasakawa India Leprosy foundation, stated “plenty extra motion” become wanted on the ground to cope with discrimination. “Many people still don’t document the disorder early for the worry of stigma and are available very overdue for remedy resulting in extra deformity,”.

The Sasakawa basis has been working within the location of social uplift of leprosy patients with talent improvement and livelihood introduction. In April 2015, the law commission of India recommended modification of discriminatory legal guidelines in a report — getting rid of Discrimination against folks suffering from Leprosy.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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