Mumbai, April 11 -- A public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Bombay high court has claimed that if the specific rules for the implementation of Maharashtra's anti-superstition law had been notified, rituals conducted by self-styled godman Ashok Kharat could have been flagged as illegal before the alleged rape and sexual exploitation of multiple women took place. The PIL, filed by the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti before the Kolhapur bench on Thursday, highlighted that it has been over 12 years since the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act was enacted, but the rules for its implementation have still not been framed. "In the Kharat case, a functional vigilance system could have flagged the 'rituals' as illegal long before multiple rapes and sexual exploitation of women took place," the petitioners contended.htc...