Rajasthan High Court recommends Make cow as national animal, make slaughter punishable by life term
Jaipur: Amid dissents in a few non BJP-ruled states over the Center's current restriction at a bargain of cows for butchering, the Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday proposed to make cow as the national animal of India.
The Rajasthan High Court additionally called for expanding punishment for cow slaughter to life imprisonment.
The observations from the Rajasthan High Court have come when enormous challenges are being held over a few states against the confinements forced by the Narendra Modi government on the sale of cattle for slaughter.
Significantly, the tiger is presently the national animal of India.
The Rajasthan High Court made the proposal while reacting to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) documented by an association which sought steps for the protection of cows.
Vitally, the recommendations from the Rajasthan high court came a day after the Madras High Court remained for four weeks the Center's notice prohibiting deal and buy cattle for slaughter.
Non-BJP parties and the legislatures of Kerala, West Bengal, and Puducherry have contradicted the Center's notice, which likewise prompted vicious dissents at IIT Madras campus where a few understudies had sorted out ‘beef fests’ on Sunday.
Comparable challenges have been composed in Kerala also.
The new standards told by the Union condition service restricted the deal or buy of bulls, cows, camels for butcher houses or for yield for a religious reason.