Indian cow Gets More Protection Than Citizens!!
The life imprisonment of three Muslim men in gujarat for cow slaughter—pronounced by a Muslim judge, Rizwana Bukhari—is being circulated as proof that India’s justice system is “neutral.” But this framing misses the deeper contradiction: when the institutional climate is overwhelmingly shaped by majoritarian politics, individual identity no longer guarantees independent perspective. The verdict reflects a judiciary operating within a legislative ecosystem designed for disproportionate punishment, not merely an impartial application of law.
No major democracy—not the US, UK, Europe, Japan, or even Islamic nations—assigns life terms for cattle slaughter. Such extreme punishment exists only in countries where moral or doctrinal politics dominate criminal law frameworks. india now stands uncomfortably close to that category.
Economically, cow protection laws have silently wrecked leather hubs, tannery zones, livestock transport networks, and export-linked jobs. Yet the state continues to enforce harsher penalties—not for economic logic but for identity mobilisation, especially in election-heavy states.
The long-term impact is more corrosive: a justice system that responds more to cultural symbolism than social harm.
If symbolic crimes now attract harsher punishment than violent ones, what does that say about the future priorities of India’s legal system?
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