Supreme Court orders setting up of beef bench

Supreme Court orders setting up of beef bench

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 10:00 PM IST
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Conflicting court orders in J & K

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to form a three-judge bench to examine the validity of penal provisions that ban slaughtering of cattle and sale of beef in the state. With that, Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy have put on hold for two months the order of the Jammu bench of the high court directing the police chief in the state to enforce the penal code provisions banning beef in the state.  The court passed the order after noting the conflicting orders passed by the Jammu and Srinagar bench of the high court.

The Jammu bench had asked the police chief to enforce the ban while the Srinagar bench had issued a notice challenging the validity of the provision banning beef. The Srinagar bench had said that if the state legislature wanted to scrap or amend these provisions, then the pendency of the matter before it will not come in the way of the assembly.

“We have two conflicting orders and the matter is required to be resolved by the Chief Justice of high court by constituting a three judge

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