CPI(M) leader and MLA Kulgam MY Tarigami Friday submitted a Private Member’s Bill to the J&K legislative Assembly Secretariat seeking repeal of Section 298-A, B, C and D of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) with criminalises the sale and consumption of beef in the state.
In a statement issued to KNS, Tarigami said that section 298-A, 298-B, 298-C and 298-D of Ranbir Penal Code fall under the classification of offences relating to religion, violates the constitutional guaranteed fundamental rights of the personal life, freedom and liberty of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir state and amounts to the unwarranted interference to the inalienable rights of the state subject, moreover, is not constitutionally valid piece of legislation.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
“The present ‘Bill’ seeks to delete Section 298-A, 298-B, 298-C and 298-D of State’s Ranbir Penal Code, Samvat, 1989 and corresponding provision of Code of Criminal Procedure Samvat, 1989, as it is de-hors and violative of the basic structure of the Constitution and doesn’t qualify the ingredients of constitutionally valid law,” he said. (KNS)