{"id":119693,"date":"2017-03-13T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=49216"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:48:15","slug":"gujarat-govt-to-enact-strict-law-to-protect-cows-says-cm-vijay-rupani-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119693","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat govt to enact strict law to protect cows, says CM Vijay Rupani | Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat government will enact a strict\u00a0law providing for life-term for those found involved in cow-slaughtering and transportation of beef, chief minister Vijay Rupani has said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering at Swaminarayan Gurukul in Vanthali town of Junagadh district, Rupani said the BJP government had earlier brought the law in 2011 to save cows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fought the case till the Supreme Court to bring a law in Gujarat to save cows. Now, we want to make this law more strict, for which we will introduce a Bill in the ongoing Budget session of the Gujarat assembly during next week,\u201d said Rupani.<\/p>\n<p>With Narendra Modi as the state chief minister, the Gujarat government had in 2011 imposed a complete ban on cow-slaughter, transportation and selling of cow-beef by amending the erstwhile Gujarat Animal Preservation Act of 1954.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>Since then, the crimes related to cow slaughter in Gujarat are covered under the Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Under this Act, the people found involved in cow-slaughtering and related crimes are penalised with Rs 50,000 fine and a jail term up to seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Rupani now has announced to make the present Act more stringent with harsher punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Bill, we will make a provision wherein people found involved in cow-slaughtering as well transportation of beef will be punished with life imprisonment. Their vehicles too will be seized permanently,\u201d said the chief minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat government will enact a strict\u00a0law providing for life-term for those found involved in cow-slaughtering and transportation of beef, chief minister Vijay Rupani has said. Addressing a gathering at Swaminarayan Gurukul in Vanthali town of Junagadh district, Rupani said the BJP government had earlier brought the law in 2011 to save cows. \u201cWe fought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}