• No one can violate the integrity and the bodily privacy of a woman in the name of religion, the Supreme Court observed.
• The observation from a Bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra came after the Centre condemned the practice of female  performed by some communities on children as a religious practice.
• Chief Justice Misra said such practices on children was an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
  

• Attorney General K.K. Venugopal urged the court to issue directions against the practice. The international community had condemned it.
• Mr. Venugopal submitted that female genital mutilation is punished with seven years’ imprisonment.

The Hindu