So a creation of the 1995 Shiv Sena BJP combine— the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995, has finally received presidential assent, after having been re-sent for approval by the new Government.
I hadn’t been able to get my hands on the Bill as yet, but since when has that ever stopped outrage? In my head, the legislation, its implementation and enforcement, would all pale when compared to the wild turns that my imagination had been taking since morning when the news broke. For when it comes to the contraband, nothing else comes to mind than the Narcotics, Drugs, and Psychotropic Substances Act and the procedures under that legislation. For those not in the know— the NDPS treats cases of personal consumption and deemed peddling (i.e. if you have beyond a quantity fit for personal consumption, it’s presumed that you will be selling the same) quite differently. In the former, you have the option to plead addiction and seek rehabilitation.
So if you were caught with a plate of boti kebabs, or a burger, do you get to claim addiction to beef, and therefore get yourself admitted to a shakha for rehabilitation? Will you have to see your counsellor once a week for six months, and write “Gaay hamari maata hai” a hundred times, and maybe withstand a medium-rare T-bone steak being placed in front of you as the ultimate test? And how much beef is too much beef, that could possibly be assumed to be a “commercial quantity?” God forbid they relied upon measly portions in Bombay restaurants to determine this— my partner and I put away half kilos of tenderloin with ease, and we are hardly big eaters.
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