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Gujarat becomes a cow avenger with no mercy
by Guest Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:17 pm
Cow avenger with no mercy
- Gujarat pioneers life-term penalty
Our Special Correspondent
March 31: Gujarat today became the first state to make cow slaughter punishable with life imprisonment.
The Assembly amended the Gujarat Animal Preservation Act, 1954, in the absence of the Opposition members, who had been suspended for the day, as several saffron-clad priests watched from the visitors' gallery.
Chief minister Vijay Rupani expressed his pride, tweeting: "The Gujarat Assembly passed a cow protection bill, among d most stringent in d country, making cow slaughter a life time punishable offense."
In 2011, then chief minister Narendra Modi's government had amended the 1954 law to raise the maximum sentence for cow slaughter from three years to seven and the maximum fine from Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh.
Today's amendment fixed a minimum for the fine: Rs 1 lakh.
It also made the punishment stricter for transporting beef or beef products in any form, raising it from a maximum three years to one between seven and 10 years. The fine remains identical to that for cow slaughter.
Any vehicle used to ferry beef will be permanently seized.
The amendment comes months ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, due at the year-end. Fresh from the spectacular performance in Uttar Pradesh, party president Amit Shah, who visited Gujarat over the past two days, is eyeing 150 seats in a House of 182.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170401/jsp/frontpage/story_143948.jsp#.WN8NPlKZP-Y
- Gujarat pioneers life-term penalty
Our Special Correspondent
March 31: Gujarat today became the first state to make cow slaughter punishable with life imprisonment.
The Assembly amended the Gujarat Animal Preservation Act, 1954, in the absence of the Opposition members, who had been suspended for the day, as several saffron-clad priests watched from the visitors' gallery.
Chief minister Vijay Rupani expressed his pride, tweeting: "The Gujarat Assembly passed a cow protection bill, among d most stringent in d country, making cow slaughter a life time punishable offense."
In 2011, then chief minister Narendra Modi's government had amended the 1954 law to raise the maximum sentence for cow slaughter from three years to seven and the maximum fine from Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh.
Today's amendment fixed a minimum for the fine: Rs 1 lakh.
It also made the punishment stricter for transporting beef or beef products in any form, raising it from a maximum three years to one between seven and 10 years. The fine remains identical to that for cow slaughter.
Any vehicle used to ferry beef will be permanently seized.
The amendment comes months ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, due at the year-end. Fresh from the spectacular performance in Uttar Pradesh, party president Amit Shah, who visited Gujarat over the past two days, is eyeing 150 seats in a House of 182.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170401/jsp/frontpage/story_143948.jsp#.WN8NPlKZP-Y
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