Guwahati: Head of Assam Minister Himanta Buswa Sarma on Monday submitted an Assam’s livestock preservation bill, 2021, in the State Assembly to regulate the slaughter, consumption and transportation of livestock, even when MLA opposition piled on price increases on the first day on the first day of the budget session.
After the bill gets assembly nods, sales, offers or exposure to beef will be banned in areas that are mostly inhabited by Hinduism, Jain, Sikh and other non-beef eating communities.
The prohibition will also apply within a 5 km radius of the temple, Vaishnavite ‘monastery), or other Hindu institutions.
It can also be applied to other institutions or regions determined by competent authorities.
“There are no people who will directly or sell or offer or offer or expose or buy beef or beef products in any form except in places that are allowed to be done by competent authorities,” read the bill.
To uphold the provisions of the law, a police officer, not under the rank of sub-inspectors, or registered animal officers, or anyone authorized by the state government, will have the power to enter and examine the place in their jurisdiction.
Wherever the authorities find reasons to believe that violations based on this action have or the possibility will be carried out, the inspection authority has been given the power to act.
“All veterinary officers and other people who exercise strength under the Act will be considered a civil servant in the sense of part 21 of the Indian criminal code,” he added.
The bill, however, brought the exception to be slaughtered which was certified by an authorized veteranian officer in his name by the state government for the benefit of public health.
Massacre of livestock suffering from incurable, infectious, infectious or dangerous diseases for other livestock has been permitted but with permission from authorized veterinarian officers.
While limiting non-regulated massacres, the bill imagines to enable the state government to build Gaushalas directly or can direct the organization recognized or local authority to start the institution to treat livestock.
No one will transport any livestock without valid permission from anywhere in the state to anywhere outside the state where livestock slaughter is not regulated by law.
The same thing applies in the case of livestock transportation from other circumstances through Assam to another country.
However, the bill stated that there was no permit needed to bring livestock to the field of grazing or for agricultural or livestock in certain districts.
There is no permission needed to bring livestock to and from the list of animal services registered for the purpose of sale and purchase of livestock in the district, “he added.
Violations of the provisions mentioned in the bill can cause prison from three to eight years and okay, which It should not be less than Rs 3 Lakh and can extend to Rs 5 Lakh or both.
The preservation of Assam’s existing livestock in 1950, regulating the massacre of livestock in Assam, provided that the veterinary officer concerned provides a fit-slaughter certificate.
The massacre of livestock aged above 14 years of being allowed.
New legislation will revoke the action of 1950 where the consumption of beef is not a violation.
In addition, the law can lead further intensify the BJP-government steps on cattle smuggling to Bangladesh who are in through the porous international border and the river area in along the international border.