The Statesman Earlier this month, a woman approached Kavita (name changed) with a proposition: if she agreed to partake in some rituals, it would rain money, she was told. The woman in question also told Kavita to find other girls; only, they must not have undergone any surgery, and would have to abstain from any medical check-ups. Though the prospect of money rain (paison ki baarish) was alluring, Kavita, a resident of Dapoli in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, grew suspicious, and informed her parents. On 16 February, an FIR was registered at a police station in Ratnagiri invoking the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. It was the 41st instance of the anti-superstition legislation being used in the state since it was passed as an ordinance on 24 August, 2013. The Legislative Assembly enacted it into a law on 13 December last year, making Maharashtra the first and only state to hav...