{"id":27841,"date":"2018-10-23T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27841"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:02:45","slug":"retrograde-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/retrograde-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrograde move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/retrograde-move\/article24754556.ece\">Retrograde move<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Life term imprisonment for Sacrilege of religious text.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Punjab cabinet approves life term imprisonment for sacrilege of religious books\/texts.<\/p>\n<p><u>Sacrilege<\/u><strong> &#8211; <\/strong><em>violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Though center has returned the bill and aiming at providing protection to Bible, Koran and Bhagwat Gita as well.<\/p>\n<p><u>4. Developing arguments against new proposed law<\/u>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protecting Holy book of one religion is anti-secular and discriminatory against other religion.<\/li>\n<li>Section 295-A is already in Place which makes deliberate attempt to hurt religious sentiments\u00a0a punishable offence with imprisonment of 3 years.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly, section 295-A of IPSC deals with religion and religious beliefs, punishment under section 295-AA explicitly for religious text would be disproportionate.<\/li>\n<li>Misuse of law in guise of protecting religion sentiments.<\/li>\n<li>Against the spirit of right to free speech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. To prosecute someone, amendment in CrPC is also required with prior permission from state and center.<\/p>\n<p>6. Thorough reading of section 295-A and section 153-A of IPC is required before prosecuting people in the name of protecting the feelings of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrograde move News: Life term imprisonment for Sacrilege of religious text. Important facts: 2. Punjab cabinet approves life term imprisonment for sacrilege of religious books\/texts. Sacrilege &#8211; violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred. 3. Though center has returned the bill and aiming at providing protection to Bible, Koran and Bhagwat Gita as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/retrograde-move\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrograde move<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}