{"id":2183,"date":"2011-02-16T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/02\/indian-court-rules-that-astrol.html"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:16:51","slug":"indian-court-rules-that-astrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/02\/indian-court-rules-that-astrol.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian Court rules that astrology is a science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/nakshatras.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/nakshatras-e1297811824103.jpg\" alt=\"vedic astrology\" width=\"248\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7508\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;float: left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/india\/8303462\/Astrology-is-a-science-court-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s why I love India:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The judgment will be met with relief in India, where engagements are decided, wedding and election dates are chosen on the basis of detailed charts drawn up by revered astrologers. A day deemed &#8220;auspicious&#8221; by an astrologer can lead to thousands of weddings and traffic gridlock.<\/div>\n<div>For years it has been dismissed by the world&#8217;s scientists, but according to the Bombay High Court astrologers are officially their colleagues.<\/div>\n<div>The ruling was made in a case brought by a campaign group, Janhit Manch, which sought a ruling against practitioners of &#8220;tantric&#8221; black magic and &#8220;fake&#8221; astrologers. Their &#8220;work&#8221; should be prohibited by India&#8217;s Drugs and Megical Remedies Act (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 which bans false claims in advertisements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The judges rejected the application, however, relying on an affidavit by Dr R Ramakrishna, a government deputy drug controller, who said: &#8220;The Act does not cover astrology and related sciences. Astrology is a trusted science and is being practised for over 4000 years.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>This article goes on to deride astrology because of the failure of one astrologer to make accurate predictions. &nbsp;Just because astrology is a science, doesn&#8217;t mean that it can predict the future any more than other scientific fields can. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why I love India: The judgment will be met with relief in India, where engagements are decided, wedding and election dates are chosen on the basis of detailed charts drawn up by revered astrologers. A day deemed &#8220;auspicious&#8221; by an astrologer can lead to thousands of weddings and traffic gridlock. For years it has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indian Court rules that astrology is a science - Astrological Musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/02\/indian-court-rules-that-astrol.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Court rules that astrology is a science - Astrological Musings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s why I love India: The judgment will be met with relief in India, where engagements are decided, wedding and election dates are chosen on the basis of detailed charts drawn up by revered astrologers. 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