by his assassination narendra dabholkar achieved the public protections against chicanery that he had been denied while he lived. the anti-superstition and black magic ordinance was enacted by the government of maharashtra in 2013. since its passage, the law has been used to indict the perpetrators of a series of egregious lurid frauds, often combined with sexual assault. unfortunately, the perpetrators have often eluded their victims and the police and escaped to other provinces in which no similar protection against charlatans yet exists.