SC bins plea for urgent hearing to implement ban on cow slaughter

NEW DELHI: With cattle slaughter banned by legislations successful each states, but Kerala and immoderate successful the north-east, an advocator connected Tuesday requested SC for an urgent proceeding anterior to Eid, which falls connected May 28, for a absorption to states to strictly enforce the laws.Advocate Barun Kumar Sinha sought an urgent proceeding connected a PIL filed by Satish Kumar Aggarwal, an ex-vice president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, but a seat headed by CJI Surya Kant sarcastically asked the counsel wherefore helium remembered the laws banning cattle slaughter lone a time earlier Eid and said determination is nary request for its urgent listing for hearing.UP and Bihar were the archetypal states to prohibition cattle slaughter successful 1955, and implicit the decades, arsenic galore arsenic 20 states and UTs person prohibited slaughter of cows.

At present, cattle slaughter is permitted successful Kerala and immoderate northeastern states. Recently, Bengal govt reiterated implicit prohibition connected cattle slaughter without certification nether its 1950 Animal Slaughter Control Act.The petitioner quoted a seven-judge seat SC judgement of 2005 successful the Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jamat lawsuit and said the tribunal had "after an elaborate information of the constitutional, social, economic, cultural, and technological aspects concerning cattle protection, upheld the validity of legislative measures imposing a implicit prohibition connected cattle slaughter".