JK High Court vacates beef ban directions, PIL

However, a week later, another division bench of the court here, while admitting a writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of the penal sections regulating ban on bovine slaughter and beef sale, had issued notices to the state government directing it to file a response within one week. No counsel was heard except few submissions that were made by Advocate General. The bench heard the case and disposed it off with the direction to the state chief secretary that it can take appropriate action.

The same three judge bench would sit at Jammu to hear petitions seeking implementation of existing law banning cow slaughter and beef ban, the CJI said recalling his communication with the HC Chief Justice. The Supreme Court’s decision had come on the plea of the State Government which had said that the inconsistent views of the two Benches of the High Court were being “misused” to disturb peace and communal harmony in the state. Â Â Hearing a Public Interest Litigation by Civil Society Tral through Advocate G N Shaheen, seeking restoration of damaged roads, a division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Tashi Rabstan sought status report indicating details of the money sanctioned and the work carried out. Bovine slaughter is banned and is punishable under law.

Earlier, South Carolina had suspended a court order for enforcing aban on beef sale in J&K and had asked the Chief Justice of J-K HC to set up a 3-judge bench to decide on two conflicting orders. Beef issue actually dominated the state for last more than a month as both Kashmir and Jammu regions sponsored protest strikes.