Tag: Beef Ban
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No beef sale in Goa from Saturday, traders protest against vigilantism
Panaji : Harassed by vigilante groups, Goa’s only beef traders association on Friday said they will go on an indefinite strike from Saturday, until the government cracks down on vigilante groups who hamper bringing in beef from neighbouring states. The association said the strike would go on till the government eases procedures to bring beef…
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Privacy as a fundamental right may have bearing on beef ban cases: SC
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday said that its holding of the right to privacy to be a fundamental right could have some bearing on the hearing of a batch of petitions including by Maharashtra government challenging the Bombay High Court verdict permitting the possession and eating of beef brought from outside the…
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Court says possessing beef no crime, upholds slaughter ban
Mumbai, (IANS) In a significant verdict, the Bombay High Court on Friday ruled that possession of beef slaughtered outside Maharashtra would not be a criminal offence but it upheld the government’s decision to ban the slaughter of bullocks in the state. The ruling by a division bench comprising Justice A.S. Oka and Justice S.C. Gupte…
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Controlling Thought and Food Habits
By Ram Puniyani The intolerance does not grow in one field of social life in isolation. In different arena of our life it tends to run in a parallel manner. In Maharashtra, with the BJP majority Government in seat of power, we had a ban on the storing, selling and eating of beef few months…
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Holy Cow-Beef and Indian Political Games
By Ram Puniyani Can the dietary practices, the animal which is worshipped as a mother by section of population, be brought in on the political arena? While all this sounds surreal, its true as far as the role of cow is there in Indian political firmament. Recently Maharashtra Government got the Presidents assent to…