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Devadasi System in India: Sacred Prostitution

Yazhini SApril 18, 202210.5281/zenodo.64681956 pages

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The devadasi system is a Hindu religious practice that offers young girls marriage to deities. As servants ordained by deities, devadasis are ritually forced to offer sexual services upon attaining puberty. Their virginity is sold and they are paid a pittance for

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1.Vishal Jeet V. Union of India, [1990] 3 SCC 318 | 2. Gaurav Jain V. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 3021 | 3. S.L.Foundation V. Union of India, [2014] W.P.(Civil) 127/2014 | 4. Devadasi System in India, < https://www.ijalr.in/2020/08/devadasi-system-in-india.html > | dated 27 August 2020. | 5. The Indian Penal Code 1860, s 370A. | 6. The Indian Penal Code 1860, s 372. | 7. The Indian Penal Code 1860, s 373. | 8. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, s 3(k). | 9. The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956, s 5. | 10. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015, s 2(14). | 11. Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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