Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban village councils from imposing social boycotts. In the majority of cases, it is women and people from lower classes that are subjected to such judgements. In order to protect them, the state passed a law against social boycotts, a decade old practice of village councils or khap panchayats. Social boycott is nothing but a practice of excluding an individual or a group of individuals from the society, friendship, conversation, privileges.

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