Alka Verma –
Published on: September 2, 2021, at 14:42 IST
The Allahabad High Court observed that the cow should be declared as the national animal and cow protection should be included as a Fundamental Right of the Hindus.
While rejecting the Bail plea of a man named Javed, the Court also asked the Central Government to come up with a ‘protection of cow’ bill in the Parliament.
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav said in his judgement, “Keeping in mind the circumstances, the cow must be declared national animal and protection of cows must be a fundamental right of Hindus because we know when the country’s culture and faith are hurt, the country becomes weak.”
The man, Javed, was charged under the theft under Sections 379 of the Indian Penal Codeand under Sections 3, 5 and 8 of the U.P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955.
Javed was accused of stealing the cow, killing it and keeping its meat also.
The Court noted, “This is not the first offence of the applicant. Earlier also, he had committed cow slaughter which had disturbed the harmony of the society.”
The Court further added, “Whenever we forgot our culture, foreigners attacked us and enslaved us and if we are not warned, we should not forget the unbridled attack on and capture of Afghanistan by Taliban”.
Justice Yadav stressed on the point that the cows are the symbol of Hindu Culture and also stated that majority of Muslim were in the favour of banning Cow Slaughter.
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