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Love exploring South Asian culture and in this episode. I want to share some strange surprising and
Controversial laws in India these laws aren't necessarily bad laws
And I don't intend to speak ill of India or any country
But like with any other society or a culture that we share here on FTD facts
We like to also look at the not, so popular topics so you can learn even more positive everybody
I'm Leroy Kenton, and this is another episode of
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You don't want to miss any of our daily facts episodes so with all that being said let's start with these strange
controversial and surprising laws, so we're going to be counting down and I want to start off with the Land Acquisition Act of
1894
This act permits the government to deprive landlords of a large section of their land and use it for making
public buildings and other things
originally introduced by the British
The law has always been misused by the government of course for acquiring land for their own private projects
moving on to number 9
We have their reservation rules right so in every state in India
they have a special quota or a reservation for different sections of
People in India the reservation can be up to 49 percent at the moment
Reservations depends upon your caste gender as well as your religion and the law has often been
Misused by people who do not actually need the benefits and people who really need them end up suffering
Yeah, that's pretty strange all right so now number a we have the different legal ages for drinking
India has 29 states and every state has passed laws around the legal age for drinking liquor in
Maharashtra state you can drink liquor as well soft liquor when you turn 21
But you have to be 25 years old to have hard liquor
Each state in India has its own drinking age which can vary from 8 in Goa 225 in Maharashtra
However national law states that no one under the age of 18 can drink at all
Okay, so let's talk about their limitation of knives law now the Indian soldiers are almost all banned from
Using knives in combat the Arms Act prohibits any weapon having a sharp edge and capable of causing
Deadly injury well except for the kirpan that it has to be less than 9 inches and those are carried by Sikhs
Now did you know in India attempting suicide is a crime?
Yeah, so according to the section 309 in the Indian Penal Code if you try to commit suicide you can go to jail for up
to one year
now if you're successful, and you die of course you don't go to jail because
Yeah, you're dead now
This is strange to many people because the popular view is that hey you know what?
Humans should have the right to choose whether they want to remain alive or not
Because after all we didn't choose to be born so if we want to choose to end our life. It should be our choice
Interesting now we made it halfway and at number 5 we have
homosexual intercourse which is illegal now this law caused a lot of media uproar the law prohibits any
kind of inappropriate
Intercourse that is against the law of nature
So if you're caught by police hooking up with somebody of the same gender and doing the business
Yeah, you could go to jail at number 4 yes
You could be charged a penalty for a third child in Kerala State
Yeah, so this stuff doesn't just happen in China in Carla state if you want a third child, then you have to pay a penalty
Families can have up to two children in Kerala and anymore. We'll get you a fine of ten thousand rupees
Ten thousand dollars, that would've been a lot
But yeah ten thousand rupees it works out to be about a hundred
$60.00 us now this law was passed to help control the population, but if you do have the money
I guess you can just be popping out babies like crazy. You just pay the fine, and that's it now
Here's an interesting law like there's laws for recruiting Indian Air Force
pilots now a main requirement for an Indian Air Force
Pilot is that the size of the pilot's legs should be a minimum of 90
Centimeters so even for tall people like let's say if you're above 6 feet if their legs are not 90
Centimeters they cannot be a pilot in the Indian Air Force I've been trying to wrap my brain around that one
But I'm sure there's some sort of
reason for that
Maybe I don't know, but I'm just saying it just sounds weird. What if it's like 91 centimeters
Then what do you do now number two we have the factories Act of?
1948 now this says that women are not allowed to work at night in
factories
Even though there are many other jobs that require women to work at night
and the final law that super strange is you can't fly a kite without a
permit a kite is also considered an aircraft so according to the Indian aircraft Act of
1934 you actually need to have a permit to make possess or even fly a kite yeah
Just like an airplane that also goes for flying drones as well, but that's is not as weird as
Flying a kite. Yeah, it's illegal to do that without permission in India hmm. Anyways guys. Hope you enjoy this video
That was a pretty interesting one, and if you want to know more don't forget to watch our videos all about India
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