Re: Ban against Music and Dancing
Democractic principles aside, the proposed law (as reported in the first piece) is a case study in How-A-Law-Should-Not-Be-Written. It is so vague. For example read this
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and arrest any person who in his opinion has committed, or is committing or is about to commit such offence
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Just imagine how much the law can be misused by any inspector arguing that the person is about to break out in a dance move.
Also, read
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that dance with all its variations shall mean the performance of dance with or without any money consideration or reward
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Potentially this means, that when some test results are announced, and a student is excited about scoring good marks, just doing an impromptu bhangra move can land him in jail and he can be fined Rs 5,000.
If our court system were reliable, they will strike down such vague laws, right away. Unfortunately we can't always rely on the courts either to do the right thing.