beef ban

Kolkata's continental eateries are facing a severe beef shortage, forcing many to remove steaks and burgers from their menus. Restaurants like Nizam's and Zam Zam have temporarily halted beef dishes due to supply disruptions. The issue stems from a halt in slaughtering operations at the Tangra abattoir, impacting the entire supply chain.

The RPI (A) led by Ramdas Athawale caused the BJP-led Mahayuti (grand alliance) some embarrassment after it announced a statewide agitation against the Maharashtra government’s beef ban.

In what could be seen as first direct statement by a senior VHP functionary over Dadri lynching and subsequent discussions over it, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Sunday said since 2/3rd of the population is non-vegetarian, Sangh Pariwar doesn't want to change eating habits of the people as being claimed.

Maharashtra MLA Waris Pathan has approached the Bombay high court on Tuesday challenging the state's beef ban law. Pathan, who is from the All India Majlees-e-Ittehadul Musalimeen (AIMIM) party, while backing the ban on cow slaughter, has urged the HC to strike down the provisions that make it a criminal offence to slaughter old bulls and bullocks.

Amid news of controversies surrounding beef ban in the country, renowned veteran journalist Sir William Mark Tully on Saturday claimed that, ‘a lot of controversies regarding the beef issue is being manufactured and it is an artificial crises in this peace-loving country’.

The draconian provisions of Maharashtra’s beef ban law intrudes on personal liberty and targets the common citizen, said a senior lawyer arguing against the 2015 legislation before the Bombay high court.

Two Mumbaikars have challenged the expanded beef ban in the Bombay high court and sought protection of their right to quality of life ingrained in their choice of source of nutrition and as a “cultural minority” among Hindus who have beef.

Banned in neighbouring Maharashtra, beef is in short supply in Goa too with shops selling it closed for the third day on Wednesday.

The high court's Jammu bench had on September 8 directed the police to enforce the provision under the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) barring sale of beef in the state.

The Bombay high court on Thursday reserved its orders on the plea for an interim stay on the provisions of the beef ban law that make its possession and, in turn, consumption a crime.

Does the Maharashtra government’s beef ban law have a loophole that actually permits the slaughter of bulls and bullocks? The “flaw” in the law was pointed out on Friday to a division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice Burgess Colabawalla by senior advocate Mukesh Vashi.

Beef-steak and beef chilli fry are going to be off the menus in this world city with Maharashtra’s new law which extends the existing ban on cow slaughter to bulls and bullocks.

A man in Mewat who was charged with murdering his seven-year-old daughter in February last year was sentenced to death by a local court on Thursday .Ikram Khan was charged with killing the girl because he wanted to frame the village sarpanch and his associates in the case because they had penalized him for violating the panchayat's beef sale ban.

A Bhiwandi resident has approached the Bombay high court challenging the violation of fundamental rights by the Maharashtra government's decision to enact a new law that bans the slaughter of bulls and bullocks.

Seeks uniformity in judicial decision to stop impact on law and order.

The PDP saying the prohibition cannot be accepted while the BJP is pressing for strict implementation of the 150-year prohibitory rule.

BJP national president Amit Shah on Thursday parried media queries on his stand about whether there should be a beef ban in Goa.

The state government on Wednesday justified its beef ban saying there was no fundamental right to privacy. The state also has the authority to bring out a list of foods that can be banned, advocate general S G Aney told the Bombay high court.

Jammu & Kashmir high court on Wednesday gave a week's time to the state government to file its response to a writ petition seeking to strike down the Constitutional provisions criminalising bovine slaughter in the state.

Kashmir responded to a call given by the hardline Hurriyat separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani against the ban on the sale and consumption of beef in the state and observed a total shutdown on Saturday.

Under pressure from party workers and members of Dalits and Qureishi communities who have been badly affected by the beef ban, Republican Party of India (A) president Ramdas Athawale joined the ongoing protest against Maharashtra Animals Preservation (Amendment) Act on Tuesday.

Beef lovers have a small consolation. Merchants who had stopped slaughtering buffaloes to protest against the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 1995, which extended a ban on cow slaughter to bulls and bullocks, have decided to begin slaughtering them from April 1.

beef ban, dipping exports and the latest floods: All these have combined to rob the Tamil Nadu leather industry, the country's largest, of its lustre.

In a rare convergence, Kerala's ruling Congress-led UDF and CPI-M headed LDF opposition, at loggerheads on several issues, have come out against the NDA government's move to impose a nation-wide ban on cow slaughter and beef, dubbing it as an encroachment on personal liberty.

The locals in Faizabad's Mumtaznagar worship the actors playing Lord Ram, Lakhsman, Sita. Keeping in view their religiosity, Muslims who eat meat have been replaced by Hindus who, even if they are meat-eaters, turn vegetarians during Navratra. Muslims continue to play smaller parts.

A PIL has been filed by a senior advocate challenging a provision in the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act banning consumption and possession of flesh of cows, bulls or bullocks slaughtered outside the state.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the month-old order of J&K High Court’s Jammu bench banning cow slaughter and sale of beef in the Muslim-majority state and requested the state chief justice to set up a three-judge bench to resolve the controversy caused by conflicting approaches of its two benches.

Chennai: The new central government notification banning the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter has raised the hackles of farmers in the state, with many saying it would only compound the problems of cattle owners already reeling under a sever drought.