Three petitions challenging the Central government’s Rules prohibiting the sale of cattle for slaughter were heard today by two different Benches of the Kerala High Court..The petitions, however, met with different fates..The first petition, which was filed by a Youth Congress Leader as a Public Interest Litigation, came up for hearing before a Division Bench presided by Chief Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh and Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan..The Court in this petition made its intentions very clear, stating that slaughter of cattle or consumption of beef has not been banned by the Rules. It remarked that the Rules only seek to regulate sale of cattle for slaughter and people seemed to be objecting without reading the Rules..The Bench also expressed its surprise at the decision of Madras High Court, which had stayed the notification yesterday..The Youth Congress Leader then proceeded to withdraw the PIL..Two others petitions, one filed by MLA Hibi Eden and Kunju Mohammed, and the other filed by Naseer PM, were heard by a Single Bench of Justice PB Suresh Kumar. Advocate Haris Beeran appeared for the petitioners..This Bench reserved its verdict in the interim prayer for stay of the impugned Rules..Yesterday, the Madras High Court had stayed the controversial Rules in a petition filed by a lawyer, S Selvagomathy..Read the petition:
Three petitions challenging the Central government’s Rules prohibiting the sale of cattle for slaughter were heard today by two different Benches of the Kerala High Court..The petitions, however, met with different fates..The first petition, which was filed by a Youth Congress Leader as a Public Interest Litigation, came up for hearing before a Division Bench presided by Chief Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh and Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan..The Court in this petition made its intentions very clear, stating that slaughter of cattle or consumption of beef has not been banned by the Rules. It remarked that the Rules only seek to regulate sale of cattle for slaughter and people seemed to be objecting without reading the Rules..The Bench also expressed its surprise at the decision of Madras High Court, which had stayed the notification yesterday..The Youth Congress Leader then proceeded to withdraw the PIL..Two others petitions, one filed by MLA Hibi Eden and Kunju Mohammed, and the other filed by Naseer PM, were heard by a Single Bench of Justice PB Suresh Kumar. Advocate Haris Beeran appeared for the petitioners..This Bench reserved its verdict in the interim prayer for stay of the impugned Rules..Yesterday, the Madras High Court had stayed the controversial Rules in a petition filed by a lawyer, S Selvagomathy..Read the petition:
