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Court vs court: New rules do not ban slaughter: Kerala HC
A day after the Madras High Court ordered a month-long stay on the Centre\'s ban on cattle sale for slaughter, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday said there is no need for it to interfere with the new rules as it doesn\'t violate the Constitution.
Kochi: A day after the Madras High Court ordered a month-long stay on the Centre's ban on cattle sale for slaughter, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday said there is no need for it to interfere with the new rules as it doesn't violate the Constitution.
The Kerala High Court said it was surprised at the order of the Madurai Bench of the Madras HC which had stayed the Centre's notification on regulating sale of cattle.
There is no ban at all on cattle slaughter, the Kerala HC observed while adding, "if only people had read the notification properly there would not have been protests.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed as withdrawn a public interest writ petition challenging the Centre's ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets across the country under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017.
When the petition came up for hearing, the Bench observed that there was absolutely no ban on slaughtering of cattle. The rules only banned sale of cattle at animal markets.
The rules did not stop one from selling cattle outside the animal market. If the people chose to read the rules, there would not be any cause for tension.
In view of the observations of the Bench, the counsel for the petitioner withdrew the petition. The petition was filed by T G Sunil, state general secretary of the Youth Congress.
The court said there is no constitutional violation in the order issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change which has created uproar in some states including Kerala.
Various bodies and political parties have reacted sharply to the government's decision, saying it is an "ill-advised" move which will widen the "terrorism" by cow vigilantes. It has also been criticised that the order imposes an indirect ban on beef.
The notification had created uproar in many states including protests by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
