Nainital: in a country where 70% of the population takes up non-vegetarian foods, the issue of meat prohibition is related to the basic rights of citizens and not the majority versus a minority problem, the Uttarakhel High Court said on Friday when he heard two petitions on the bans of the slaughterhouse on Haridwar.
The Chairman of the Chief Judge of Chauhan Hospital and Justice Alok Kumar Verma said, “The problem is not a minority versus the majority.
The problem is very simple.
What is the basic rights of Indians?” The court has now asked the applicant to change their requests in a week because no of them begged that Such prohibitions violate the rights to the privacy of citizens.
The court said that the petition had not been compiled with “wholehearted” needed in the challenging “constitutional problem”.
Please submitted by several residents of Haridwar have accused that the ban on the wind cutting house in Haridwar discriminating the minority because many regions in the district have a substantial Muslim population.
On Friday, the bench quoted a survey of Indian food habits from 2018 and 2019.
“This is a very striking data that in Uttarakhand 72.6% of the population is non-vegetarian.
In totality, 70% of Indian populations are non-vegetarian devastating The myth that the majority of the population is vegetarian, “said the court.
In his previous hearing, the bench had said that the prohibitions like those in Haridwar questioned the extent to which the state could make citizen choices.
“The problem is whether citizens have the right to decide on their own diet or will be decided by the state,” said.
The court also said that civilization was judged by just by treating a minority.
“Democracy does not only mean rules with the majority but, the most important, democracy means minority protection,” he said.
In March, Uttarakhand had stated all areas in Haridwar “free slaughterhouse” and canceled no objection certificate issued for slaughterhouses.
The two petitions in the challenging high court on two reasons – a blanket ban on any meat is not constitutional, just as the Uttarakhand government has been included in the Municipality Law, 237a, to provide strength below a city company, Board or Nagar Panchayat zone ” free slaughter “.
The court has also asked the applicants to change the request to challenge the constitutional validity of the amendments made to up the Municipal Corporation Act.
Like the municipal law, the amendment was carried out for city corporate laws which gave the power of the state to ban the massacre of animals in any city company.
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