Cow trafficking - Gurgaon man gets 7-years jail

The law in Haryana is strict on the subject of illegal transportation and slaughter of cow - it is a punishable offence and, the district court of Gurgaon has awarded seven years of imprisonment to a person who was involved in the illegal transportation of cow.
The culprit was convicted for illegal transportation and causing injury to the complainant and imposed penalty of Rs 2000 apart from the prison term.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 7 February 2017.

The incident happened three years go. It seems the complainant was on his way home when he noticed some cows being loaded into a container. He got down from his vehicle and tried to prevent the cow from being loaded in container but the miscreants fled leaving cow behind. He gave chase and intercepted teem some distance away. His vehicle sustained damages and he also was hurt.
Police arrived at the spot and subsequent investigation revealed that the cow was being transported illegally.


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The police of Maharashtra want owners of all cows to submit photographs of their animals so that it would help the police to enforce the law to ban selling of beef. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 31 March 2015.
Police officers in the city of Malegaon, in the western Maharashtra state, say the photos are needed for reference in case a criminal case arises under the recently introduced law, which bans the slaughter of all cows and sale and consumption of their meat.

The need for photographic evidence has apparently arisen after three people were charged locally for selling beef. Wonder what purpose a photograph of the cow would serve once the deed is done – the deed means slaughter.
The census of livestock in India is taken at 5-year-intervals and the last one was taken in 2012 – as per that census, the total bovine count in Maharashtra was just over 21m. In comparison, the human count was around 112m.
Therefore, in order to have an effective and flawless mechanism to prevent illegal slaughter of cows, it would be necessary to create and maintain a database with photos of the cows. Moreover, the database must be linked to databases from other parts of the country to identify any case of theft of the cows prior to slaughter. And, once added to the database of criminals, it would need dedicated policemen at every level.

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#cowslaughter #rajnathsingh #india #tourism #BJP #NDA Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has indicated that the NDA government will try its "level best" to bring in a nationwide ban on cow slaughter through a consensus as reported in zeenews.india.com dated 30 March 2015.
His intentions are noble no doubt because we Indians look upon the cow as a Goddess and worship her as go-mata – hence, imposing a ban on cow slaughter would be in the fitness of things. Already BJP-ruled like Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have introduced necessary legislation in this regard and no one should doubt the commitment of the government to prevent slaughter of cows.

However, introducing such a ban in all states of the country is not possible right now since the government does not have an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament. Obviously, that would have to wait till such time the BJP manages to get the required numbers in the Rajya Sabha.
Of course, the leaders should also consider another important aspect – namely, the effect such legislations might have on tourism. On the one hand we want tourists to come over and spend their dollars in India but they would have to content themselves with dishes that do not have beef. Once the decision is implemented, the travel websites would inform would-be tourists to come prepared to dine on veg dishes.
Agree, veg dishes are healthy and there is a clamor for some foreigners to go vegan but, the fact remains that it could hurt tourism.

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