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Kerala High Court declines to stay bar on 'cattle sale'

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday declined to stay the Centre's ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter.

Considering a batch of petitions challenging rule 22 of the notification imposing restrictions on the sale of cattle last week, Justice P B Suresh Kumar had said that the court would consider the application for the stay of the notification after seeing the Centre's counter. It had directed the Centre to file its counter affidavit on the impact of the notification banning sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter from animal markets.

The Centre, however, did not inform its stand on the issue on Wednesday.

Posting the case for hearing on June 26, the court today directed the Centre to file the counter affidavit before the next hearing. A division bench had last week declined to entertain a PIL seeking quashing of the Centre's notification banning sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter, observing that there was no constitutional violation in the rules.
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