{"id":52241,"date":"2016-02-21T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52241"},"modified":"2016-02-21T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:03:11","slug":"ban-on-animal-sacrifice-in-hindu-temples-in-sri-lanka-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/21\/ban-on-animal-sacrifice-in-hindu-temples-in-sri-lanka-in-the-offing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on animal sacrifice in Hindu Temples in Sri Lanka in the offing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">by P. Krishnaswamy <span style=\"font-size: large;\">Courtesy: \u00a0Sunday Observer<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Prevention of Animal Sacrifice in Hindu Shrines Bill being drafted:<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Minister Swaminathan to present Bill in Parliament:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Significant milestone in promoting Hindu religious concepts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Animal sacrifice in all Hindu shrines in the island will be banned under a new law that is to be introduced soon, Resettlement, Reconstruction, Hindu Religious Affairs and Prison Reforms Minister D.M. Swaminathan told the Sunday Observer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He said he will present the Bill in Parliament at the end of this month. The \u2018Prevention of Animal Sacrifice in Hindu Shrines\u2019 Bill is now being drafted by the Legal Draftsman\u2019s Department, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This would be a significant milestone in promoting Hindu religious concepts, since animals sacrifice in Hindu shrines and temples was a controversial issue, disliked by a majority of Hindus, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The practice has been in existence in many Hindu shrines and temples throughout the island but the Munneswaram Badra Kali Amman temple became the focus of the issue in recent years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bhikkhus and animal rights activists repeatedly protested against animal sacrifice in the temple and also a minister in the former regime forcibly took away animals kept near the temple premises for sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Defaulters will be charged under the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Courtesy: \u00a0Sunday Observer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/2016\/02\/21\/new01.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by P. Krishnaswamy Courtesy: \u00a0Sunday Observer Prevention of Animal Sacrifice in Hindu Shrines Bill being drafted: Minister Swaminathan to present Bill in Parliament: Significant milestone in promoting Hindu religious concepts: Animal sacrifice in all Hindu shrines in the island will be banned under a new law that is to be introduced soon, Resettlement, Reconstruction, Hindu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}