 bill no 68 of  2014 the prevention of cruelty to cows bill, 2014 by shri sunil kumar singh, mp a billto provide for effective measures for the prevention of cruelty to cows and for matters connected therewith whereas cow is subjected to inhuman cruelty and atrocities resulting in law and order problems and breach of peace, alarming depletion in its population, decline in its growth rate and sharp reduction in cow-human ratio and consequent malnutrition, disease, disabledness, poverty, unemployment and pollution of agricultural products and environment, it is expedient in the interest of the nation to take effective steps to prevent cruelty to and killing of cows and its progeny by an effective legislation to give effect to the provisions of the directive principles of state policy contained in articles 47, 48 and 48a of the constitutionbe  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the prevention of cruelty to cows act, 2014short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of india (3) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appoint2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—definitions(a) "beef" means flesh of cow or its progeny in any form;(b) "beef products" include extraction from beef; (c) "cow" includes its progeny including bulls and bullocks; (d) "export" means taking to a place outside india; (e) "injury" means—5(i) torturing any cow so as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering orcausing or permitting any cow to be so treated;(ii) abandoning any cow in such circumstances which render it likely thatit will suffer pain;10(iii) wilfully permitting any cow, by its owner to go at large in any street,while the cow is affected with any contagious or infectious disease or without reasonable excuse permit any diseased cow to die and includes killing of cow; and(iv) practicing phooka or doom dev or injecting any substance in the bodyof the cow for improving lactation15(f) ''killing'' means killing by any method whatsoever and includes inflicting physical injury which in ordinary course causes death; and(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act3 it shall be the duty of every person having the care or charge of any cow to take all reasonable measures to ensure that the contravention of the provisions of this act does not take placeduty of persons having charges of cows204 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force or any usage or custom to the contrary, no person shall cause any injury or kill or attempt to cause injury or kill for any purpose, whatsoever, any cow in any place to which this act extendskilling or causing injury or cruelty to cow prohibited(2) nothing in this section shall apply to,—25(a) the dehorning of cows; or(b) the extermination and destruction of cows under the authority of any law for the time being in force and in the manner prescribed thereunder 5 no person shall export a cow for the purpose of killing it either directly or through his agent or servant or by any other person acting on his behalfrestriction onexport ofcows30prohibition on sale of beef6 notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, noperson shall possess or offer for sale or sell or transport beef or beef products in any formpenalty357 (1) whoever kills or attempts to kill or abets the killing of cow shall be deemed to beguilty of committing an offence punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years but which shall not be less than two years and with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees on each cow(2) whoever causes or attempts to cause or abets in causing injury to, other thankilling of, cow shall be deemed to be guilty of committing an offence punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees40(3) whoever contravenes or attempts to contravene or abets the contravention of theprovisions of section 5 or section 6 shall be deemed to be guilty of committing an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees8 the central government shall establish a research and development institute for cow and its progenyestablishment of research and development institute59 of 19609 the provisions of this act shall override the provisions of the prevention of cruetly to animals act, 1960 or any other law for the time being in force to the extent of inconsistencyact to have overriding effect power to make rules10 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act510(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonscow is subjected to inhuman cruelty resulting in decline in its growth rate and sharp reduction in cow-human ratio it is in the interest of the nation to take effective steps to prevent cruelty to cows including killing of cows, which is the most extreme form of cruelty and to punish the guilty with the growing adoption of non-conventional energy sources like bio-gas plants, even waste material have come to assume considerable value after the cattle cease to breed or are too old to do work, they still continue to give dung for fuel, manure and bio-gas, and therefore, they cannot be termed as useless it is well established that the cow is the backbone of indian agricultureunder article 48 of the constitution, a duty has been cast upon the government to prohibit slaughter of cows and calves acting under this directive principle, the union parliament has got the legislative competence to enact a law on the subjectit is, therefore, proposed to enact a uniform central law, namely, the prevention of cruelty to cows act, 2014 under entry 17 of the concurrent list in the seventh schedule to the constitutionthe salient features of the bill are—(i) making it a duty of every person having the care or charge of any cow to prevent any cruelty to it;(ii) prohibition on killing or causing injuries to cows; (iii) restriction on export of cows; (iv) prohibition on sale or transport of beef or beef products; and (v) penalties for contravention of the aforesaid provisionshence this billnew delhi;sunil kumar  singhjuly 1, 2014 financial  memorandumclause 8 of the bill provides for the establishment of a research and development institute for cow and its progeny the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is likely to involve a recurring expenditure  to the tune of rupees two hundred crore per annuma non-recurring expenditure to the tune of rupees two hundred crore is also likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 10 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— a billto provide for effective measures for the prevention of cruelty to cows and for  matters connected therewith————(shri sunil kumar singh,  mp)gmgipmrnd—1314ls(s3)—23072014