What are the strangest laws of India? I love exploring South Asian culture and in this article, 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 about India or any other country but like with any other society or a culture that we share here are quite strange. We are always tried to come up with new interesting things so it will help you so we're going to discuss about that all strangest law.

1. 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.

2. Reservation

We are not against Indian Constitution. We have 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.

3. Alcohol Drinking Age

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 interstate level. However national law states that no one under the age of 18 can drink at all.

4. Knives not for Indian Soldiers

Okay, so let's talk about 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.

5. Suicide is a Crime

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. Is it Interesting?

6. Homosexual Intercourse

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.

7. Child Limitation-Control of Population

Yes, you heard right. 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.

8. Recruitment of Pilots in Indian Air Force with limitation

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.

9. Factories Act 1948

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.

10. Prohibition to fly kites

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. We are celebrating kite flying day on 14 January especially in Gujarat but that is for few days but if you want to fly kite other time you need special permission according to Indian Aircraft Act, 1934.

So there are the strangest law of India. If you want to add more strange law, you are most welcome and you can add in comment section so we can update here in the article with your reference.

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