Subramanian Swamy bill seeks death penalty for cow slaughter

Article 48 mandates the state to prohibit the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle.

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BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy (Source: PTI Photo/File)

BJP member Subramanian Swamy introduced in Rajya Sabha Friday a private member’s bill proposing “deterrent punishment”, including the death penalty, for cow slaughter and related issues. The Cow Protection Bill, 2017, seeks “to create an authority to ensure stabilisation of population of cows and to suggest such measures to comply with Article 37 and 48 of the Constitution, to ban the slaughter of cow and to provide deterrent punishment including death penalty for slaughter of cow and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto”.

Article 37 says the provisions of Directive Principles are not enforceable by any court and emphasises the duty of the state to apply these principles in making laws to establish a just society. Article 48 mandates the state to prohibit the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle.

In parliamentary history, only one private member’s bill has become a law. While scores of private members’ bills are introduced each session, they are invariably withdrawn by the respective members after the government gives its views on those subjects.

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Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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