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HC grants four weeks time to comply with directions PIL against slaughtering, sale of bovine animals 9/23/2014 11:09:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 23 : A high court division bench of Justice Virender Singh and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur today gave four weeks time to the state to comply with the August 4, 2014, order whereby the bench had directed the Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir provinces to inform it about the steps taken to prevent slaughtering and the sale of slaughtered bovine animals. The court directive came in a Public Interest Litigation filed by advocate Parimoksh Seth in which he submitted that inspite of the fact that penal provisions of RPC make slaughtering or killing of bovine animals an offence punishable under section 298-A and even when possession of such slaughtered animal, an act punishable under section 298-B of the RPC, yet slaughtering and sale of such animals in rampant in some parts of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and it is also stated that this goes on with the active connivance of the authorities who are otherwise supposed to check this practice, which severely affects the religious sentiments of a section of the society. The bench, after hearing the two sides, granted four weeks time to comply with the order dated August 4, 2014 whereby Division Bench directed Divisional Commissioners Jammu province as also Kashmir Province to submit a report by or before the next date of hearing as to the steps that have been taken with a view to prevent either slaughtering or sale of such slaughtered animals in various areas falling under their jurisdiction. The bench also directed that the divisional commissioners shall obtain inputs from Inspector Generals of Police Jammu as well as Kashmir range, to find out as to whether the activities of slaughtering of bovine animals and their sale is being undertaken on commercial level on regular basis and if so, what steps have been taken by them with a view to brining the guilty to book. (JNF)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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