Allahabad HC asks Centre to declare cow as ‘national protected animal’, ban slaughter
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Express News Service
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court just lately urged the Central authorities to ban cow slaughter within the nation and declare cow as a “national protected animal”, since it’s the consultant of divinity in Hinduism and throughout different faiths.
Passing the order within the case Mohammad Abdul Khaliq vs State on February 14, the single-judge bench comprising Justice Shamim Ahmed invoked Puranas observing that anybody who killed cows or allowed others to kill them was deemed to rot in hell.
Justice Ahmad additional stated that because it was a secular nation, all religions together with Hinduism ought to be revered and the cow was thought of essentially the most sacred of all animals in Hinduism.
“We reside in a secular nation and should have respect for all religions and in Hinduism, the assumption and religion is that cow is consultant of divine and pure beneficence and will due to this fact be protected and commemorated,” noticed the decide.
He added that within the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in India, a motion to guard cows was spearheaded that strove to unify the residents by demanding the Government of India to ban cow slaughter with speedy impact.
“This Court also hopes and trusts that the Central Government may take appropriate decision to ban cow slaughtering in the country and to declare the same as ‘protected national animal’,” added the Bench.
The bench handed the order whereas listening to a plea filed by one Mohammad Abdul Khaliq, who had moved the Court in search of the quashing of a felony case filed in opposition to him for cow slaughtering and its transportation on the market.
The Court discovered {that a} prima facie case was made out in opposition to the accused.
“From the perusal of the materials on record and looking into the facts of the present case and after considering the arguments made at the bar, it does not appear that no offence has been made out against the applicant,” stated Justice Ahmad whereas refusing to quash the case.
“Accordingly, the present application under Section 482 CrPC filed by the applicant
is dismissed,” the order stated.
An FIR was filed lodged in opposition to Khaliq on November 2, 2019, on expenses of cow slaughter and smuggling underneath varied sections of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955.
The single decide within the order made detailed observations on cow safety and the significance of cows in Hinduism. The Court stated that the origin of the veneration of the cow may very well be traced to the Vedic interval.
Referring to the Mahabharata, the decide said that Bhishma Pitamah (grandfather of Kauravas and Pandavas) had noticed that the cow acted as a surrogate mom by offering milk to human beings for a lifetime, so she was really the mom of the world.
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court just lately urged the Central authorities to ban cow slaughter within the nation and declare cow as a “national protected animal”, since it’s the consultant of divinity in Hinduism and throughout different faiths.
Passing the order within the case Mohammad Abdul Khaliq vs State on February 14, the single-judge bench comprising Justice Shamim Ahmed invoked Puranas observing that anybody who killed cows or allowed others to kill them was deemed to rot in hell.
Justice Ahmad additional stated that because it was a secular nation, all religions together with Hinduism ought to be revered and the cow was thought of essentially the most sacred of all animals in Hinduism.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“We reside in a secular nation and should have respect for all religions and in Hinduism, the assumption and religion is that cow is consultant of divine and pure beneficence and will due to this fact be protected and commemorated,” noticed the decide.
He added that within the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in India, a motion to guard cows was spearheaded that strove to unify the residents by demanding the Government of India to ban cow slaughter with speedy impact.
“This Court also hopes and trusts that the Central Government may take appropriate decision to ban cow slaughtering in the country and to declare the same as ‘protected national animal’,” added the Bench.
The bench handed the order whereas listening to a plea filed by one Mohammad Abdul Khaliq, who had moved the Court in search of the quashing of a felony case filed in opposition to him for cow slaughtering and its transportation on the market.
The Court discovered {that a} prima facie case was made out in opposition to the accused.
“From the perusal of the materials on record and looking into the facts of the present case and after considering the arguments made at the bar, it does not appear that no offence has been made out against the applicant,” stated Justice Ahmad whereas refusing to quash the case.
“Accordingly, the current utility underneath Section 482 CrPC filed by the applicant
is dismissed,” the order stated.
An FIR was filed lodged in opposition to Khaliq on November 2, 2019, on expenses of cow slaughter and smuggling underneath varied sections of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955.
The single decide within the order made detailed observations on cow safety and the significance of cows in Hinduism. The Court stated that the origin of the veneration of the cow may very well be traced to the Vedic interval.
Referring to the Mahabharata, the decide said that Bhishma Pitamah (grandfather of Kauravas and Pandavas) had noticed that the cow acted as a surrogate mom by offering milk to human beings for a lifetime, so she was really the mom of the world.
