In Gujarat, life imprisonment for cow-slaughtering

Mangalore Today News Network

Ahmedabad, Mar 31, 2017: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat on Friday enacted a harsher law providing for life-term for those found involved in cow-slaughtering.

With Narendra Modi as the state chief minister, the Gujarat government had imposed a complete ban on cow-slaughter, transportation and selling of cow-beef by amending the erstwhile Gujarat Animal Preservation Act of 1954, in 2011. Since then, the crimes related to cow slaughter in Gujarat are covered under the Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act of 2011.