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Sect’s Death Ritual Raises Constitutional Conflict in India


By ELLEN BARRY and MANSI CHOKSI

Citing a right to religious practice, members of the Jain faith are protesting a ruling barring santhara, a fast to the death that a judge declared a form of suicide.

Published: August 25, 2015 at 12:00AM

Read more at: NYT World

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