Magistrate

Devidas Chaudhari, a retired sub-district magistrate from Maharashtra, took up the plantation of native trees in 15 acres of land. The efforts inspired 50,000 people to increase green cover in the area

“Whenever I address probationers or police officers, I tell them that their responsibility is to enforce the rule of law. In the process, if you disobey political directions, other vested interests or corrupt elements within the force, then so be it.”

As per the Bill, several other regressive practices including human sacrifice, coercing a person to perform fire-walk at religious festivals, and claiming to change the sex of the foetus in the womb, are banned.