{"id":26418,"date":"2017-05-31T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=26418"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:39:21","slug":"three-hc-orders-cows-one-calls-cows-made-national-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/three-hc-orders-cows-one-calls-cows-made-national-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Three HC orders on cows: one calls for cows to be made the national animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper wpb_text_column td_block_wrap td_block_wrap vc_column_text tdi_5  tagdiv-type td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\"  data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_5\" ><div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\"><\/div><div class=\"td-fix-index\"><p>Two high court judgements and another high court observation in the recent past have received muddled responses in from the public, in the wake of the Union Environment ministry\u2019s controversial rule which prohibits sale\/purchase of cattle at cattle fairs for slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The first ruling was from the Madras High Court\u2019s Madurai bench, which stayed the ministry\u2019s rule. The bench of Justices M V Muralidharan and C V Karthikeyan granted an interim stay of four weeks on separate petitions, filed by S Selvagomathi of Madurai town\u00a0 and by Asik Elahi Baba, from Kalimangalam, near Madurai.<\/p>\n<p>The second, somewhat related judgement (s<em>ee <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudspace.idrsolutions.com:8181\/HTML_Page_Extraction\/output\/a3fdf2a9-d8cf-4f09-9964-a22d2d366d03\/Mahesh_Chandra_Sharma__Jago_Janta_Society\/index.html?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">judgement here<\/a><\/strong>)<\/em>\u00a0came from the Rajasthan High Court, which has put forward a suggestion that the cow be made the national animal of the country.\u00a0 It also suggested that punishment for cow slaughter be increased to life imprisonment from the current 10 years. The tiger has so far been the national animal.<\/p>\n<p>The third observation, given on May 31, comes from the Kerala High Court, saying that the ban was on sale of cattle for slaughtering at animal markets. It observed that \u201cthere was no ban on eating, slaughtering and selling of cattle.\u201d A PIL, calling the Union rule to be declared illegal, was withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>The union government\u2019s ban has created chaos across the country. The ministry has adopted a clever ploy of using the prevention of cruelty to animals act to show that slaughter of cows for meat amounts to cruelty. The problem is that neither does the constitution ban such slaughter, neither is the new rule vocal about the killing of other animals for food.<\/p>\n<p>The Madras High Court\u2019s order has stayed the rule for now, but it will come up again after four weeks. Meanwhile the Rajasthan High Court\u2019s observation has come up through a PIL calling for better treatment of the animals in a particular gaushala. The PIL did not specifically ask for the cow to be made a national animal and for increased punishment. They were the court\u2019s observations.<\/p>\n<p>The third appeal fell through a technicality.<\/p>\n<p>More court action would be necessary after the interim order of the madras bench expires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>\u2014India Legal Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[9367,9368,9366],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cow-419081_1920.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}