MP Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention Bill gets Presidential nod
President Pratibha Patil
has granted her assent to the long-pending Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny
Slaughter Prevention (Amendment) Bill which proposes seven-year
imprisonment for cow slaughter.
The Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Vidheyak has received the Presidential approval following which it has become an act and has subsequently been published in the extraordinary gazette, an official release said today.
In fulfillment of its commitment to protecting and conserving cow progeny, the state government had passed the amendment bill in the state Assembly in 2010 to remove the flaws in the Madhya Pradesh Gauvansh Pratishedh Adhiniyam 2004 (Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention Regulation), the release said.
The amendment act also obviated the difficulties and to make the provisions more stringent.
With the enforcement of the amended act, now the responsibility of proving the prosecution wrong would lie with the accused in case of cow slaughter.
Similarly, a guilty of cow slaughter would be liable to imprisonment for seven years instead of present three years and a minimum fine of Rs 5,000 which may be increased by the court.
The amended act provides that no person shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered or offered for slaughter of any cow progeny by any means.
Besides, no person, including transporter, shall transport or offer for transport or cause to be transported any cow progeny himself or by his agent, servant or by any other person acting in his behalf within the state or outside the state for the purpose of its slaughter in contravention of the provisions of the Act or with the knowledge that it will be or is likely to be slaughtered.
The amended Act also has provisions for specifying necessary actions for feeding and rearing the cow progeny.
Under the Act, any police officer not below the rank of head constable or any person authorised in this behalf by competent authority shall have the power of entry, inspection, search and seizure and to present the case in the court.
It may be mentioned here that the state government had forwarded the amendment Bill on September 3, 2010 to the Union Home Ministry for Presidential nod.
The assent was received on December 22, 2011. The amended Act has been published in the extraordinary gazette of Madhya Pradesh on December 31, 2011.
The state government would take action for enforcement of the amended Act through a notification.
The Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Vidheyak has received the Presidential approval following which it has become an act and has subsequently been published in the extraordinary gazette, an official release said today.
In fulfillment of its commitment to protecting and conserving cow progeny, the state government had passed the amendment bill in the state Assembly in 2010 to remove the flaws in the Madhya Pradesh Gauvansh Pratishedh Adhiniyam 2004 (Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention Regulation), the release said.
The amendment act also obviated the difficulties and to make the provisions more stringent.
With the enforcement of the amended act, now the responsibility of proving the prosecution wrong would lie with the accused in case of cow slaughter.
Similarly, a guilty of cow slaughter would be liable to imprisonment for seven years instead of present three years and a minimum fine of Rs 5,000 which may be increased by the court.
The amended act provides that no person shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered or offered for slaughter of any cow progeny by any means.
Besides, no person, including transporter, shall transport or offer for transport or cause to be transported any cow progeny himself or by his agent, servant or by any other person acting in his behalf within the state or outside the state for the purpose of its slaughter in contravention of the provisions of the Act or with the knowledge that it will be or is likely to be slaughtered.
The amended Act also has provisions for specifying necessary actions for feeding and rearing the cow progeny.
Under the Act, any police officer not below the rank of head constable or any person authorised in this behalf by competent authority shall have the power of entry, inspection, search and seizure and to present the case in the court.
It may be mentioned here that the state government had forwarded the amendment Bill on September 3, 2010 to the Union Home Ministry for Presidential nod.
The assent was received on December 22, 2011. The amended Act has been published in the extraordinary gazette of Madhya Pradesh on December 31, 2011.
The state government would take action for enforcement of the amended Act through a notification.
Cancer
Southland children who were at schools that got rid of the free milk programme in 1950 could have a 30 per cent higher risk of bowel cancer than those who had daily milk until 1967, a new study says. The University of Otago research, recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, surveyed 562 New Zealanders between the ages of 30 and 69 who had developed colorectal cancer and 571 people of the same age who did not. The study's co-author, Professor Brian Cox, said results showed those who had daily milk in schools had a 30 per cent lower risk of bowel cancer. The risk was lowest in those who had drunk about 1200 bottles of milk during their school years. Between 1937 and 1967, when the scheme was abolished, all New Zealand schoolchildren were given half a pint of full milk a day. However, from 1950, many Southland schools opted out of the scheme after being given the option by the provincial education board. For people who started school in Southland from 1951 to 1967, only 36 per cent had had school milk at least once. In other regions in the same period, 85 per cent of children had had milk, the study said. If the results of the study held true, Southland schoolchildren from 1950 would have a 30 per cent higher risk of developing colorectal cancers, but more investigation was necessary before firm conclusions could be drawn, Prof Cox said. The Otago-Southland region had a historically high rate of bowel cancer compared to the rest of the country, he said. "We're still trying to work out why ... The school milk study doesn't fully explain that." A British study had suggested increased calcium intake could actually increase the risk of bowel cancer, but Prof Cox said it had been less specific than the New Zealand study and used different methodology. New Zealand drinking water also contained less calcium compared to Britain, which could have an impact, he said. It appeared higher calcium intake in youth resulted in fewer growths, called adenomas, forming on the intestinal walls, he said. Adenomas are seen as precursors to malignant cancer. Dairy giant Fonterra announced a plan to reintroduce a daily portion of milk to 110 primary schools in Northland last week. Prof Cox welcomed the plan, but said government help would be needed to keep it going. "If it was run for a couple of years then stopped it's not going to achieve a lot," he said.
Oxygen
if cow inhales 21% of oxygen it will takes 5% and remaining 16% will exhale outside
Pyramid
- horns and
- hunch of cow are like two powerful pyramids.
- stars and
- sun
Hit and Run
This is the incredibly heart-warming story of a group of people who came together to save a helpless animal that would otherwise have lost its life, and its calf, in a road accident. Around 8.45 pm on Saturday, there was a smattering of vehicles plying on Jayamahal Extension 2nd main road, along the mosque and the compound of the burial grounds, when two cows were seen attempting to cross the road.
The driver of the car, who was speeding, reportedly tried to overtake the animals sharply but rammed into the right hind flank of one of the cows. Even while the animal screamed in pain, the callous driver sped away, but one of the motorists chased him and managed to take his driver's license and phone number before he jumped back in the vehicle and sped away.
"A traffic policeman who reached the spot around 9 pm called for medical help and back up, but in vain. Fortunately, a veterinary doctor, Dr Mahmood Abbas, who was passing by with his friend saw the cow and rushed to help. Though the road was pitch-dark with barely any streetlights, people from the crowd used the lights from their mobile phones to help the doctor see, as he began a procedure lasting nearly three hours on the wounded animal.
Another onlooker, Syed Rasoul, ran into the Muslim burial ground nearby and returned with a piece of cloth that he used as a makeshift rope to hobble the animal whilst the surgery was being performed. Someone else brought a bucket of water which they used to wash the cow's wounds and calm it down. The operation went on for nearly three hours, and it was well after midnight by the time the injured animal's wounds had been stitched.
Had it not been for the intervention of some selfless, compassionate passersby including a veterinary surgeon named - who performed an operation lasting two hours on the animal in the middle of the road - the victim would not have made it.
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