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After taking up various missions like bringing back black money stashed abroad, Swachh Bharat, Digital India and Make in India, the Narendra Modi-led government has embarked on another mission to repeal outdated and archaic laws. 
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Law Ministry to identify these laws and get it repealed through an Act of Parliament. Let’s have a look at six most weird laws in India: 
 
<keyword id="2123426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Motor-Vehicles-Act">Indian Motor Vehicles Act</keyword>, 1914: This Act requires that a person needs to have ‘well brushed teeth’ in order to be eligible to become an inspector in Andhra Pradesh. A person with dirty, pale teeth cannot become an inspector in the state! 
 
The <keyword id="75223" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Penal-Code">Indian Penal Code</keyword>, 1860 (Section 497): Under this law, a married man can ‘legally’ have sex with an unmarried girl, a divorcee or a widow. It will not be treated as adultery. 
 
If you wish to have sex with a married woman, you need to have her husband’s prior approval! The law states, “Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.” 
 
On the other hand, women have the special privilege of having as many extra marital affairs as they wish. This is how gender equality exists in our country. 
 
Indian <keyword id="1327581" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Treasure-Trove-Act">Treasure Trove Act</keyword>, 1878: Did you know that you can be jailed if you, by chance, find anything that is worth more than Rs 10 and you do not report it to a revenue officer? The Indian Treasure Trove Act, 1878, states that it is mandatory to report it to a revenue officer. According to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the law was designed to “protect and preserve treasure found accidentally but had archaeological and historical value.” 
 
Indian Post Office Act, 1898: This Act states that “the exclusive privilege of conveying letters is reserved to the government.” So, the whole courier industry in the country is illegal according to this Act. Even sending letters through pigeons might in violation of this Act. 
 
Indian <keyword id="1936372" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sarais-Act">Sarais Act</keyword>, 1887: This Act makes it mandatory for an innkeeper to report to the nearest police station if someone falls ill at a hotel. The innkeeper is also required “to thoroughly cleanse the rooms and verandahs, and drains of the sarai (hotel), and the wells, tanks, or other sources from, which water is obtained for the persons or animals using it, to the satisfaction of, and so often as shall be required by, the Magistrate of the District, or such person as he shall appoint in this behalf.” 
 
Moreover, he must “remove all noxious vegetation on or near the sarai (hotel), and all trees and branches of trees capable of affording to thieves means of entering or leaving the sarai.” 
 
Indian Aircraft Act, 1934: Flying a kite might be your hobby, but did you know that you need to get a permit for that? According to the Indian Aircraft Act, 1934, kites are also aircraft, and you must obtain a permit as required for a plane.

Naya
Daur Naya Kanoon: These 6 Weird
Indian Laws Along
With Many Others
Might Get Abolished
Or Changed
By Modi Govt

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Workers are quiet quitting and acting their wage by doing their jobs as written — and nothing more.</li><li>Two workers who have quiet quit and acted their wage said it's about setting boundaries.</li></ul>A boss tries to give her employee, Veronica, a stack of papers to work on overnight."Respectfully, Susan, I'd rather spend time with my family," Veronica replies. Then, she declines a 6:30 pm Zoom meeting; it's outside of her working hours.Veronica and Susan aren't real. They're characters played by 30-year-old content creator Sarai Soto, whose <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR51tqRa/">TikToks</a> on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-quiet-quit-work-less-get-paid-former-teacher-2022-8">quiet quitting</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/forget-quiet-quitting-workers-acting-your-wage-work-life-balance-2022-9">acting your wage</a>, and asserting boundaries at work have racked up millions of likes and views."People just really feel seen, they feel heard, they feel like someone's standing up for them," Soto told Insider. "I can't tell you how many messages I receive of people being like, okay, I know your content is funny and provides this comedic relief, but I'm telling you, although it's exaggerated, I've been through those exact same scenarios."Soto herself is no stranger to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quiet-quitting-answer-corporate-burnout-tiktok-yes-2022-8">quiet quitting</a>, the act of doing your job and nothing above and beyond. She's done it before to preserve her mental health in a "terrible job" she was miserable at, which she ultimately left.It's also become a fundamental part of her success on TikTok. When Soto tipped her toes into content creating, workplace videos were the ones that went viral. She discovered there was an audience of people who feel stuck at work, can't quit, and crave the scenarios she's acting out. Here's how Soto's characters and other workers are quiet quitting, or, as some workers have rebranded it, "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/forget-quiet-quitting-workers-acting-your-wage-work-life-balance-2022-9">acting your wage</a>."<h2>Put in the amount of effort that matches your salary</h2>The trends of quiet quitting and acting your wage have set the internet ablaze, with managers threatening that <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.skimresources.com%2F%3Fid%3D35871X943606%26isjs%3D1%26jv%3D15.2.4-stackpath%26sref%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fquiet-quitting-work-consequences-than-you-think-2022-8%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.usatoday.com%252Fstory%252Fmoney%252F2022%252F08%252F14%252Fwhat-is-quiet-quitting%252F10304956002%252F%26xs%3D1%26xtz%3D240%26xuuid%3D23355198e1bc2becd1cff1b697466eb4%26xcust%3Dxid%253Afr1661444011306hde%26xjsf%3Dother_click__contextmenu%2520%255B2%255D&amp;amazonTrackingID=null&amp;site=bi&amp;vikingID=6307f0ae310b0b257d2ea05a&amp;platform=browser&amp;sc=false&amp;disabled=false&amp;sessionID=1662572928980jdavlu52&amp;xcust=xid:fr1662572932190chf">quiet quitters could be the first to go</a> when layoffs come around. But the pushback to quiet quitting reveals more about managers than workers — showing they <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quiet-quitting-boss-backlash-shows-some-managers-always-expected-overwork-2022-8">have always expected overwork</a>. Employees are no longer onboard with that, especially as prices rise, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-inflation-has-compared-to-average-hourly-earnings-2022-7">wages don't keep up</a>, and going above and beyond just results in more work. That's where acting your wage comes in."If a company is paying you, let's say minimum wage, you're gonna put in minimum effort," Soto said. "If you're acting your wage, that means that the amount of labor that you're putting in reflects the amount that you're getting paid. So you're not going to go above and beyond and do the job of two to three people and do all this extra work if you're really not even making a livable wage."Soto said that quiet quitting doesn't necessarily mean you do a bad job, or you're no longer invested in your work."It just simply means make sure that you go to work and you set those boundaries when you feel burnt out," she said. <h2>Make changes to your environment that you can control</h2>For Billy, a warehouse worker in Ireland in his mid 30s, it's all about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/forget-quiet-quitting-workers-acting-your-wage-work-life-balance-2022-9">making work work for you</a>. As he performed his night shifts, Billy didn't want to let his mind stay idle — and substituted ambient radio listening for listening to audiobooks. He powered through Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" in just four weeks."The only thing I did is I changed what was playing on the radio. That's the only thing I did," Billy, whose last name is known to Insider but withheld for privacy, said. "There was no material change. I wasn't doing any more or any less work otherwise."That type of little thing — exerting control over something you're able to influence at work — is key, Billy said. It doesn't have to be audiobooks; maybe you're just simply changing the TV channel at the bar where you work."When you're put into a workplace, you're put into a box. It's somebody else's box," Billy said. But, even so, "there are ways that we can control our workplaces," he said, even if they're small. And those victories of making work work for you — and acting your wage — can push towards something even greater."Employees have a lot of power right now to negotiate. They have choices with the Great Resignation," Soto said. "So I'm hoping that people will just continue to rise up and continue to raise awareness about this."

How to 'act your wage,' according to 2 millennials who did it: 'If a company is paying you, let's say minimum wage, you're gonna put in minimum effort'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A supermarket worker was caught trying to assassinate Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow in 2021.</li><li>Jaswant Singh Chail was diagnosed with a mental illness, and believed he was a Sith Lord from "Star Wars."</li></ul>Striding through the royal castle grounds on Christmas morning, crossbow in hand, 19-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail was stopped by a police officer."Morning, can I help, mate?" the officer asked him, per court records.Wearing a metal mask he'd made himself at a forge, Chail would tell the officer: "I am here to kill the Queen."Chail had scaled the entrance guarding Windsor Castle's private grounds on December 25, 2021, deploying a nylon rope ladder and a grappling hook.His personal mission, as he told officers that morning, had been to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Chail was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison, in the UK's first treason conviction in about 40 years.Chail, a supermarket worker from Southampton, was psychotic, said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/R-v-Chail-sentencing-050923.pdf">Judge Nicholas Hilliard at his sentencing,</a> citing diagnoses from psychiatrists. But Chail also acted upon his violent and homicidal thoughts before he had his condition, Hilliard said.Details of Chail's foiled assassination attempt, arrest, and interactions with healthcare professionals were listed in Hilliard's remarks.<div type="image" title="Chail's crossbow, which he bought in November 2021, was seized by police." height="616" width="1200" msid="104209606" hostid="261" sizebytes="46870"></div>The judge noted that Chail believed he was a Sith Lord from the "Star Wars" franchise, and had referred to himself as such after being rejected by the Defense Ministry Police around April 2021."I am not a terrorist, I am an assassin, a Sikh, a Sith. I am Darth Chailus," he wrote in a journal entry he sent to his sister at around 2 a.m. on Christmas morning.<div type="image" title="Chail was found wearing a mask he forged himself." height="439" width="662" msid="104209608" hostid="261" sizebytes="12582"></div>Chail also chatted regularly with an artificial intelligence bot that he named "Sarai" and called his girlfriend. In the days leading up to Christmas, he had shared his assassination plans with the bot, asking if "Sarai" still loved him.On December 22, the bot "reassured him that this would be alright," Hilliard said.<h2>Chail wanted to avenge a 1919 massacre in India</h2>The next day, Chail took a train to Windsor, telling his family he was going to enlist in the Royal Marines, and booked a Travelodge room at his destination. Police searching his accommodation later found crossbow bolts, gloves, a metal file, and a spray bottle filled with a solution meant to mask his scent.<div type="image" title="Chail was seen by surveillance cameras as he walked across Windsor Square in the early morning of December 25, 2021." height="571" width="765" msid="104209609" hostid="261" sizebytes="32124"></div>On December 24, Chail told Sarai that he would die the next day, and the bot "agreed that they would be united in death," Hilliard said.After climbing into Windsor Castle's private grounds on Christmas Day, Chail spent around two hours roaming the area until Metropolitan Police spotted and approached him.Upon seeing Chail's crossbow, an officer drew his stun gun and ordered Chail to get on his knees. The supermarket worker complied, according to Hilliard.<div type="image" title="Officers arrested Chail at around 8 a.m. on Christmas Day." height="572" width="917" msid="104209611" hostid="261" sizebytes="62634"></div>Officers found that Chail's crossbow had its safety catch off, and was loaded with a bolt that was ready to fire.Chail was arrested, examined by a nurse, and told authorities he had no mental health diagnosis and didn't want to kill himself. But he maintained that he intended to kill the Queen, per Hilliard.His life's mission was to exact revenge for a 1919 massacre of demonstrators in Amritsar, India by British troops, he told police.<div type="image" title="Chail was photographed just after his arrest. He described himself as &quot;thin&quot; and &quot;gaunt,&quot; Hilliard said." height="411" width="312" msid="104209614" hostid="261" sizebytes="18248"></div>When assessed for his mental health, Chail told authorities he had been sexually abused as a child, and started hearing voices at a young age.He thought that one of those voices, which took on a female persona, was the same one as his AI girlfriend's, Hilliard added.Hilliard said that Chail, who is now 21, had lost touch with reality and was psychotic, and thus will be sent to the high-security psychiatric facility Broadmoor Hospital.After being treated further, he will be sent to prison to serve the rest of his sentence, Hilliard said.Chail <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/updated-sentence-windsor-castle-intruder-pleads-guilty-threatening-kill-her-late-majesty">pleaded guilty to three charges in February </a>— making threats to kill, possessing an offensive weapon, and being near the Queen with intent to injure her with a weapon. The third charge amounts to treason.At his sentencing, Chail apologized to King Charles and the royal family in a letter to the court for causing them "distress and sadness," the <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-crossbow-plot-queen-elizabeth-man-sentenced-604091dcd5a42f8d99ebd13e98f5720f">AP reported.</a>His defense lawyer, Nadia Chbat, said he was glad that no one was hurt in the end, per the AP."He is embarrassed and ashamed he brought such horrific and worrying times to their front door," Chbat said, per the outlet.Chbat's law office, 4 Kings Bench Walk, did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.Queen Elizabeth and her now-late husband, Prince Philip, had been living at Windsor Castle in late 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Queen <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-death-obituary-2022-9">died on September 8, 2022</a>, at 96. She had reigned for 70 years as Britain's longest-serving monarch.

A supermarket worker who believed he was a Sith Lord roamed Windsor Castle with a crossbow to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, and was egged on by his AI girlfriend

<keyword id="6357103" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-traffic-police">Delhi Traffic Police</keyword> has issued a fresh notification superseding all previous orders regarding declarations of speed limits on the roads of NCT of <keyword id="66" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword>. The order shall be published for the information of the general public in the official gazette and by affixing a copy on the notice boards of the office of all District Deputy Commissioner of Police and all Police Stations in Delhi/New Delhi, the notification read. The concerned civic road maintaining agencies shall erect the corresponding informatory sign boards indicating the speed limits at all prominent locations on the road/road stretches in their areas of jurisdiction for guidance and convenience of the road user/general public. This order has come into force with immediate effect from June 8. Unregulated plying of motor vehicles on a high speed on the roads of NCT of Delhi is endangering the life of motorists as well as other road users/commuters and it is necessary to regulate the speed of motor vehicles on the roads of NCT of Delhi for safety of motorists as well as other road users. The notification has been issued by Satyawan Gautam, Deputy Commissioner of Police/Traffic (Modernization), Delhi in exercise of the powers, conferred u/s 28(1) (b) of Delhi Police Act, 1978 read with Rule 9 (1) of the Delhi Control of Vehicular and Other Traffic on Roads and Streets Regulations, 1980 which revises the maximum speed limit (where road condition permits) for various type of motor vehicles on Delhi roads. For cars, jeeps, taxis, cabs, the maximum speed limit is revised to 70 km per hour on NH-48 (Earlier NH-8) from Parade Road/Gurgaon Road Crossing to Delhi Gurgaon Border, DND Flyover - Mayur Vihar Link Road and NH-44 (Earlier NH-1) from <keyword id="2802822" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Singhu-Border">Singhu Border</keyword> to Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, Noida Toll Road (The straight stretch from Delhi side upto Toll Gates and from the Toll Gate upto the points where curves lasts), Saleemgarh Bypass Road (Ring Road Bypass). Similarly, it was also revised on NH-9 (Earlier NH-24) from Millennium Park to Gazipur Border, NH-9 (Earlier NH-10) from Ghevra Xing to Tikri Border, Northern Access Road from Red Light NSG to T-Point of Northern Access &amp; Central Spine, Central Spine Road from Mahipalpur Chowk to Terminal III, IGI Airport. A maximum speed of 60 km per hour is prescribed on stretches including NH-44 (Earlier NH-1) from Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar to Mukarba Chowk, Barapulla Nallah Road from Sarai Kale Khan upto Aurobindo Marg Xing, Ring Road from Chandgi Ram Akhara to Azadpur Flyover via ISBT, Rajghat, <keyword id="187137" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="ITO">ITO</keyword>, Sarai Kale Khan, Ashram Chowk, <keyword id="40458" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="AIIMS">AIIMS</keyword>, DhaulaKuan / Naraina, Punjabi Bagh, Outer Ring Road from Modi Mill Flyover upto Olaf Palme MargNH-8 Xing via Munirka. The speed limit is also revised on Outer Ring Road from District Centre Janakpuri via Peeragarhi, Mukarba Xing via Burari Xing upto Chandgi Ram Akhara, Pushta Road (Marginal Bandh Road) from Noida Border (Chilla Regulator) to New Geeta Colony Grade Separator via Akshardham Flyover, Radisson Road from T-Point Radisson Hotel to Terminal-III, IGI Airport , Terminal-II, IGI Airport Road from T-point of Terminal-II Road and Central Spine to Terminal-II, IGI Airport. A maximum speed for cars of 50 kmph on NH-44 (Earlier NH-1) from Mukarba Chowk to Azadpur Chowk, Ring Road from Azadpur to Chandgi Ram Akhara via Model Town, Kingsway Camp, Mall Road, NH-9 (Earlier NH-10) from Punjabi Bagh to Ghevra Xing, All arterial roads in areas between Ring Road and Outer Ring Road, beyond Outer Ring Road, inside Ring Road and entire Trans Yamuna area (except roads which are specifically mentioned in the table). The lowest limit of 30 kmph is directed for All minor roads inside all Residential Areas / Commercial Markets and service roads / service lanes. 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Delhi revises maximum speed limit for motor vehicles

Delhi Transport Minister <keyword id="6391020" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gopal-Rai">Gopal Rai</keyword> on Saturday asserted that the government has no intention to take the road-rationing experiment odd-even formula beyond January 15 amid reports that the <keyword id="6830867" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="odd-even-scheme">odd-even scheme</keyword> may be extended,. 

	The pilot plan for cutting vehicular emission was launched on January 1.

	 Rai said that some confusion is also being spread that the plan was illegally imposed by the government, and claimed that under Section 115 of the Motor Vehicle Act, they have power to implement this scheme as such provisions were also made during the <keyword id="6354367" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Commonwealth-Games">Commonwealth Games</keyword> as per this law. 

	“Government is neither going to extend odd-even scheme beyond January 15 nor finish it before the 15-day trial period,” Rai said, terming some of media reports of extending the car-rationing scheme as “false”.
 

	He further said the traffic-restriction is just only for 15 days and after the trial period, government will study the data collected through it and will do a proper analysis, adding, it will then be able to take a final decision.
 

	Rai, who was at his residence held a meeting of Coordination Committee with officials concerned on the scheme, said from January 1-8, traffic police, transport and revenue departments have issued 5,893 challans for the violation of odd-even rules so far.
 

	“Out of these numbers, 2,912 challans were issued by SDMs and 2,260 by traffic police. Besides, enforcement wing of the transport department has issued 721 challans for violating odd-even rules so far,” he said.

	Apart from this, 1,943 challans were issued by the transport department to auto drivers for different violations including refusal to drive.
 

	The government has also received 13,528 calls on its two helplines in the last one week and most of them were related to queries about the scheme. Out of these calls, 395 were related to complaints against bus, auto drivers, and other issues.
 

	According to the minister, in view of traffic rush on some road stretches during peak hours, government has decided to deploy additional teams of transport department and traffic police to manage traffic there from Monday. The areas include, ITO, Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, Connaught Place, Mathura Road, Ashram, New Friends Colony, Nehru Place, Sarai Kale Khan, Hanuman Mandir Marg and Dhaula Kuan.
 

	“Government has also decided to do a close monitoring on the assigned works of civil defence volunteers. Teams of SDM have also formed in this regard,” he said.
 The fate of the odd-even vehicle scheme will be decided on January 11 by the <keyword id="6355014" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-High-Court">Delhi High Court</keyword> which had yesterday reserved its order on various pleas challenging the AAP government’s ambitious pilot project which will continue till then. 

	A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath reserved the order after the Delhi government informed it that the pollution level of particulate matter across the national capital showed a declining trend due to implementation of the scheme. 
	 
	(Image credits: Indiatimes)

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