social evil is an issue that refers to the adverse affects on the society and is opposed by some

considerable number of individuals. it is commonly the consequences that extend beyond the
factors of an individual and the geographical environment

some of the social evils that influence the society are as follows:-

1) SATI SYSTEM

2) DOWRY SYSTEM

3) DEVADASI SYSTEM

4) PROSTITUTION

5) FEMALE INFANTICIDE

6) RAPE

7) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

1:- SATI SYSTEM

sati refers to a funeral ritual within some Asian communities in which a recently widowed
woman immolated herself typically on the husband's funeral pyre

Mention of the practice can be dated back to 4th century BC. While evidence of practice only
appears from the 5th - 9th centuries BC. Practice is considered to have been originated within the
warrior aristocracy on the Indian subcontinent gradually gaining in popularity from the 10th
century BC to other groups and becoming generally sanctioned or recommended by the doctrines
around the 12th century BC. With the military expansions outside of Indian subcontinent, the
practice has been attested to have been practiced in a number of localities in Southeast Asia, such
as at Bali in present-day Indonesia
The practice was outlawed by the British Raj in 1829 within their own territories in India,
followed up by laws in the same directions by the authorities in the princely states of India in the
ensuing decades, with a general ban for the whole of India issued by Queen Victoria in 1861.

RELEVANT LEGISLATION ON DEVADASI SYSTEM:-

*The first legal initiative to outlaw the devadasi system dates back to the 1934 Bombay Devadasi
Protection Act

*In 1947, the year of independence, the Madras Devadasi (Prevention of Dedication) Act
outlawed dedication in the southern Madras Presidency.

*The devadasi system was outlawed in all of India in 1988

4:-PROSTITUTION
Prostitution is the exchange of sexual services for money. While in some countries like Germany,
prostitution is legal, in India owing a brothel is a crime. child prostitution is a major problem in
India involving around 1.2million children. in Rajastan, the Bedia tribal's stance for girls is
different from the rest of India because girls are a life for the community as there is this century's
old tradition of forcing daughters into prostitution when they attain adulthood. The small village
houses approximately 59 families in which girls who have attained puberty, are forced into sex
trade, the tradition roots back to the time of Zamindari system, when Bedias were dancers in the
courts. they used to perform for feudal landlords

A person who works in this field is called a prostitute, and is a kind of sex worker. Prostitution is
one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to
country, from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a
regulated profession. Prostitution is sometimes also referred to as "the world's oldest profession"

Green=prostitution legal but regulated

Blue=prostitution legal and not regulated. Organized activities such as brothels and
pimping illegal

Red=prostitution illegal

Grey=no data

RELEVANT LEGISLATION ON PROSTITUTION:-

*The Immoral Traffic Suppression Act (SITA) 1956