The Bombay High Court on Friday May 06,2016 allowed conscious possession of slaughtered beef and also decriminalised it.
A division Bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S. C. Gupte upheld the
constitutional validity of The Maharashtra Animal Preservation
(Amendment) Act, 1976.
The Bombay High Court said that section 5D that prohibits possession of the flesh of
cow, bull or bullock slaughtered outside the state of Maharashtra
infringes privacy therefore it has been struck down.
The Bombay High Court was hearing a bunch of petitions which challenge section 5A of
the Act that prohibits transport or export of cows, bulls or bullocks
for the purposes of slaughter, section 5B that prohibits sale, purchase,
distribution in any other manner of cows, bulls and bullocks, section
5C prohibits possession of the flesh of cows, bulls or bullocks, section
9 of the said Act that empowers the police authorities to search and
seize cattle suspected to be taken for slaughter.
The Bombay High Court upheld offences under the Act related to the sale or transport of bulls, bullock for slaughter which are punishable with a jail term of up to five years and a fine of Rs. 10,000 and the possession of meat of a cow, bull or bullock, is punishable with one-year of imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000
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