India Needs To Get Rid Of Bizarre And Irrelevant Laws
BANGALORE: It’s always good to be abiding by laws. But what if the laws start hindering your basic activities? Like, you can be sent to jail for flying a kite or you could be disqualified if you don’t have good-looking teeth. Strange isn’t? India is a country that has witnessed the most bizarre, the weird and the irrelevant laws that have no sustenance in the Indian history.
If you dig deep inside the history, you may find an accumulation of over 31 million pending cases and surprisingly that would take around 364 years to resolve them and that too by appointing 10.5 judges per million people.
Surely, these obsolete laws need to be cleaned from our country and the good news is that the Union government has introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to retract 36 acts on 11 August 2014.
Where in the world, flying a kite could be an offence?
But according to an Aircraft Act, 1934 a kite, like a balloon is an ‘aircraft’ so as per this law you must take a permit to make, possess or fly a kite similarly as one has to take permissions for a plane.
