#constitutional mandate

[intelligentchristianlady]

Good way to look at it.

[indizombie]

Cow slaughter in UP is a non-bailable offence, and a crime of varying degrees in 22 states, although there is no constitutional mandate to prohibit beef consumption, its sale, purchase or transportation... The Allahabad High Court said that the law against cow-slaughter and the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, was being misused against innocent people. The court said the police routinely claimed any seized meat was beef and suspects stayed in jails for offences they may never have committed. More than half the arrests under the NSA in India’s most populous state in 2020 have involved cow-slaughter suspects, according to government data. The NSA allows the police to detain a person without charges for up to a year.

Saurabh Sharma, 'How UP Makes Cow Slaughter An Issue Of National Security', Article 14