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Directions: The question consists of two statements, one labelled as Legal Principle and the other as Factual Situation. You are to examine the legal principle and apply it to the given factual situation carefully and select the best option.
Legal Principle: Every person is entitled to freedom of conscience and to profess, practice and propagate his religion subject to public order, morality and health.
Factual Situation: X, a Muslim sacrifices a cow on Bakra-ld believing it to be a part of his religious rites. However, there was a law of general prohibition on slaughter of cows. X, was prosecuted for slaughtering cows.
Decide.
  • a)
    X cannot be prosecuted as killing of cow on Bakra-Id has the Muslim religious sanction.
  • b)
    X can be prosecuted as the state has a right to regulate the freedom of the religion in the interests of the public order.
  • c)
    X can be prosecuted as the slaughtering of cows hurts other communities' religious sentiments.
  • d)
    X can be prosecuted, as the slaughtering of cows is cruelty to animals.
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?
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Article 25 in The Constitution Of India 1949 states that all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate religion but this freedom is subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of Part III of the Constitution of India. In the given situation, as there was a law of general prohibition on slaughter of cows, X, though sacrificed the cow believing it to be his religious right, was liable to be prosecuted as the State can impose reasonable restrictions on freedom of religion.
Hence, option 2 is the correct answer.
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