Legal News Updates

28 1 2017

Supreme Court refuse to ban cow slaughter in all states in India.

On deciding the petition to ban of cow slaughtering in all states of India. A bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice N V Ramana said, "A state may decide to ban it while another may decide not to. We cannot interfere in such decisions."

The CJI told petitioner Vineet Sahai's counsel Bisaria that the SC had passed comprehensive directions to the Centre and states in July last year to frame rules to stop illegal inter-state and cross-border transportation of cattle. "Committees have been put in place by states to prevent illegal cattle transportation," and dismissed the PIL.

 

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