Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nKey-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Bill envisages a ban on all forms of cattle slaughter and stringent punishment for offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While \u2018beef\u2019 is defined as the flesh of cattle in any form, the word \u2018cattle\u2019 is defined as \u201ccow, calf of a cow and bull, bullock, and he or she buffalo below the age of thirteen years\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bill also terms shelters established for the protection and preservation of cattle registered with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries as \u2018gau shalas\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police officers ranked sub-inspector and above or a competent authority will have the power to search premises and seize cattle and materials used or intended to use to commit the offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terming cow slaughter as a cognizable offence, violators can attract three to seven years of imprisonment. While a penalty between Rs 50,000 and Rs 5 lakh can be levied for the first offence, second and subsequent offences can attract penalties ranging between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 10 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The BJP-led government in Karnataka passed the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill (2020) in the Assembly on December 9 amid strong opposition from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Bill envisages a ban on all forms of cattle slaughter and stringent punishment for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[1275,1276],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-indian-polity-current-affairs","tag-society-and-sociology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34758,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756\/revisions\/34758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34756"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}