Abstract

A custom should give pleasure to the people, but female genital mutilation is not such a custom. It provides pain and trauma to satisfy society. Patriarchal society is not an excuse for cruelty to women in society, and the law should safeguard women. Bohra community people have been practicing FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) for thousands of years, performed on children below the age of 15. FGM leads to adverse health conditions. The laws have failed to address the problem faced by the women of these community and mitigate the further propagation of such illegal cultural practice .It is practiced discreetly such that only the mothers and grandmothers of the community are at its core to ensure that the practice is performed year after year, generation after generation, on girls, from infancy to adolescence. FGM causes severe pain, infections, excessive bleeding, and difficulties with wound healing, fever, urinary infections, shock, mental trauma, vaginal problems, menstrual problems, scar tissue formation, sexual problems, and sometimes even death1.

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