Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 18: Adding fuel to the new controversy over beef issue, the CPI (M) legislator from Kashmir Mohd Yousuf Tarigami has submitted a Bill to the Legislature seeking repeal of some sections of Ranbir Penal Code pertaining to cow slaughter and keeping its flesh in possession and the punishment there of, under the old existing law in J&K State.
Mr Tarigami submitted a Private Member’s Bill to the J&K Legislative Assembly Secretariat today, seeking repeal of Sections 298-A, 298-B, 298-C and 298-D of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC), with objects and reasons that the Constitution of India and Constitution of J&K provides for freedom of conscience and free profession, practice of religion to every citizen of the country/ State Subject. The above mentioned sections of the Ranbir Penal Code, under the classification of offences relating to religion, violates the constitutional guaranteed fundamental rights of the personal life, freedom and liberty of the citizens of the Jammu and Kashmir and amounts to the unwarranted interference to the inalienable rights of the State Subject, moreover, is not constitutionally valid piece of legislation.
“The present Bill seeks to the delete four Sections of the RPC, Samvat 1989 and corresponding provision of Code of Criminal Procedure Samvat, 1989, as it is de-hors and violative of the basic structure of the Constitution and doesn’t qualify the ingredients of constitutionally valid law.”
While Section 298-A pertains to intentionally killing or slaughtering a cow or like animal, section 298-B is related to keeping in possession flesh of such animal; section 298-C pertains to killing or slaughtering of he or she buffalo and 298-D bringing or possessing flesh or untanned hide of a Gond in a town.
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