Posted on 06/04/2002 5:13:56 PM PDT by dighton
An Indian magistrate has used a British-era colonial law to forbid the assembly of four or more pigs in a town near Delhi, on pain of arrest.
Section 144 of India's Criminal Procedure Code was invoked to prohibit the movement of around 8,000 pigs who were accused of running about in an "uncontrolled manner" in Gurgaon district.
If "apprehended" the pigs are to be "disposed of in such a manner that they do not manage to return", the order states.
Section 144, introduced by the colonial administration early in the last century to curb anti-British demonstrations, is normally imposed to enforce law and order.
"I could have taken action under the municipal act which allows seizure of the stray animals, but I thought I would give their owners a chance to take care of their animals," said the district magistrate, Anurag Rastogi.
His order decrees that the district's pigs must be kept in "confinement" in their owners premises at all times.
Meanwhile, thousands of cows are disrupting New Delhi traffic as they squat on roads and wander between cars in a search for shade, water and grass.
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