Cows exhale oxygen, absorb cosmic energy, home to gods: Rajasthan HC judge
Rajasthan high court judges quotes purported scientists’ views to praise benefits of cows, their urine and excreta in order suggesting governments make cow slaughter punishable with life term
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2017 07:17 AM IST
A Rajasthan high court judge asked the central and state governments to declare the cow as India’s national animal and ensure that those who kill it be given life terms. Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma also listed 11 benefits of cow urine.
“I spoke with conscience. Our religious texts tell us how important cow is. Even its dung and urine are beneficial to us”, he told Hindustan Times.
A selection of what Sharma said, in possibly his last order before he retired on Wednesday:
1.It is believed that 33 crore gods and goddesses reside inside the cow and the animal appeared along with goddess Laxmi during the churning of ocean in Hindu mythology.
2.Cow is the only living being which intakes oxygen and emits oxygen and the animal is a hospital in itself.
3.Cow urine keeps the liver, heart and mind healthy, and increases the immunity of the body. It also slows down ageing.
4.Drinking cow urine rids one of sins of the previous life.
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5.According to a Russian scientist, coating the walls of the house with cow dung will protect the inhabitants from radiation.
6.The cow, through its horns, absorbs “cosmic” energy.
7.Consumption of cow milk prevents cancer from entering the blood cells.
8.Cow dung known to have killed cholera germs.
9.Cow dung can generate 4,500 litres of biogas every year. If biogas is generated from the cow dung of all cow progeny in the country, the country can save 6.80 lakh tonnes of firewood and save 14 crore trees from being cut.
10.Cow is the only mammal whose large intestine is 180 feet long because of which the cow milk has Kerotin which produces vitamin A in human bodies.
11.Mooing of cow kills the pathogens in the air.
Judge’s cow, peacock remarks: Legal fraternity says law and faith shouldn’t be mixed
Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma recommended declaring cow a national animal, and cited benefits of cow urine and cow dung. He also said peacock does not have sex and the peahen gets pregnant drinking the tears of the peacock.
Hindustan Times, Jaipur/Jodhpur | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 01, 2017 10:10 PM IST
The legal fraternity in Rajasthan is aghast at former high court justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma for the cow and peacock statements he made on the last day of his tenure, saying “constitutionally the judgment was not correct”.
Justice Sharma recommended declaring cow a national animal, and cited benefits of cow urine and cow dung, while disposing of a 2010 PIL on a government-managed cow shelter in Hingonia near Jaipur.
The judge also said peacock does not have sex and the peahen gets pregnant drinking the tears of the peacock, evoking strong reactions.
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Lawyers and former high court judges felt that law and faith should not be mixed and such a judgment on the last day was against judicial dignity.
Former Rajasthan high court judge Pana Chand Jain said, “What is the need of national animal status to cow as in the Constitution under article 48, cow has been given protection. The article states that the bovine cannot be slaughtered. The respective state governments are given rights to completely ban bovine slaughter.”
He asked what was the benefit in calling cow a national animal – a law cannot be made and there is no need to declare it as there is already a law to protect it.
Asking the chief secretary and attorney general to work on declaring the cow a national animal was “unconstitutional” as it cannot be implemented because the law making authority is the legislative assembly of the state. “Constitutionally, the judgment is not correct,” he said.
On the peacock remarks, justice Jain said, “I am not aware what is there in religious books but practically it is not understandable. The cow cannot be compared with peacock.”
He said that when in this country, there is no declaration of a national language, then the question of declaring cow as national animal does not arise.
Rajasthan high court advocate RP Singh said, “What he (justice Sharma) said about the sex life of a peacock is factually unfounded. Faith and law need to be kept at a respectable distance.”
Kuldeep Mathur, president of the Rajasthan High Court Lawyers Association in Jodhpur, said a judge should work within the purview of law.
He said it is the work of a legislator to decide whether the cow should be declared a national animal. If the legislature thinks fit, it can make laws for the welfare of animals.
He said there were several legal provisions for conservation of cows, which need to be strictly enforced. Moreover, a high court judge should speak on scientific basis, he added
Senior advocate Anand Purohit said a high court judge should not give such a judicial order a day before retiring. “This is contrary to judicial dignity,” he said.
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