New Delhi : India’s top court Friday rejected a petition seeking a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, a flashpoint issue for Hindus who consider the animal sacred.
The Supreme Court dismissed an activist’s proposal to prohibit the slaughter of cows across India, a measure that would have effectively banned beef consumption in the nation of 1.25 billion. Cows are revered in the Hindu scriptures as the ‘mother’ of civilization and many worshipers equate the slaughter of cows or eating beef as blasphemy, AFP reported.
But millions from India’s huge minority populations — including Muslims, Christians and lower caste Hindus — eat beef, which isn’t widely available and is banned altogether in some states. Just eight of India’s 29 states permit the consumption of beef or the slaughter of cows. “One state may ban slaughter, the other may not,” the court said in rejecting the petition. “We will not interfere in state laws.” Several radical religious groups, and the Hindu militant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have long campaigned to implement a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.
The BJP won national elections in 2014 with a thumping majority, pledging in part to ban cow slaughter. But so far the government in Delhi has failed to convince the states to pass such sweeping measures. Some BJP-ruled states have in recent years pushed through tougher penalties including ten-year jail terms for those convicted of cow slaughter or possession or consumption of beef. Simmering tensions over the issue have spilled into violence since BJP’s national ascent to power, with a string of attacks on minorities by right-wing Hindu vigilantes resulting in the deaths of at least 10 people. In 2014, a 50-year-old Muslim man accused of slaughtering a cow and consuming its meat was murdered by a mob at his home near New Delhi. The lynching prompted international outrage and accusations of a rise in religious vigilantism under the Modi administration.—HA/IINA
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The truth is out & ugly lies covered:
The yale University Professor David Gelender told the world at large NASA lied. They never could cross the Radiation line
which will burn everything to ashes: Discovered by Van allen: known as van Allen belt.
NASA admits , they can never cross the belt. Therefore Moon Landing is a hoax & they never landed on the Moon.
The News was a stunning defeat of Science & scientists
Therefore read Holy Quran & know the absolute truth : How ALLAH SWT has protected the upper zones of HIS creation.
No one can ever Land to Moon or Mars. waste of Money & time.
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