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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) directed Tamil Nadu authorities to enforce an contiguous prohibition connected cattle slaughter crossed the State by implementing a Government Order (G.O.) issued connected August 30, 1976 for prohibiting cattle slaughter successful the involvement of beverage accumulation and betterment of agrarian economy.
A summertime abrogation Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan directed the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police/Head of Police Force (DGP/HoPF) to guarantee that nary cattle oregon calf gets slaughtered anyplace successful Tamil Nadu either connected the eve of Bakrid connected Thursday (May 28, 2026) oregon connected immoderate different day.
The 2 officers were ordered to contented suitable instructions to their subordinates crossed the State successful bid to guarantee that determination was nary breach of the tribunal order. The judges, further, directed the High Court Registry to database the substance erstwhile again connected Friday (May 29, 2026) for the authorities to study compliance.
They besides observed that a speechmaking of the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Rules, 2023 makes it wide that the authorities officials acrophobic should not licence slaughtering of immoderate different animal, specified arsenic goats and sheep, successful a spot different than a designated slaughter location that holds a valid licence.
The orders were passed portion allowing a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by K. Surya alias K. Surya Prasanth (29) the younker helping caput of Indu Makkal Katchi. The petitioner had complained astir impermanent sheds having been enactment up successful galore places successful Coimbatore to slaughter cows during Bakrid.
Authoring the verdict, Justice Swaminathan highlighted that Article 48 of the Constitution requires the State to instrumentality steps for prohibiting the slaughter of cows, calves and different milch arsenic good arsenic draught cattle. Even during the debates successful the Constituent Assembly, it had been underlined that cattle was a revered carnal and that it had been associated with our civilisation from the clip of Lord Krishna.
“Cow extortion was an contented truthful beloved to Mahatma Gandhiji. The eminent student Shri Dharampal pointed retired that lone to cater to the dietary requirements of the assemblage Army, cows came to beryllium slaughtered successful precise ample numbers. After India attained independence, respective States passed legislations and those legislations had besides been upheld by the courts,” the justice said.
Further, stating that galore Muslim Kings had abolished cattle slaughter during their reign successful the past, Justice Swaminathan quoted the Supreme Court excessively to person said that not each Muslims sacrifice cows connected the time of Bakrid. Sacrifice of a cattle connected Bakrid was not an obligatory overt enactment for a idiosyncratic professing Islam to grounds his/her spiritual content and idea.
After referring to the apical court’s verdicts connected the contented and taking into information the 1976 G.O. issued for banning cattle slaughter, the justice wrote: “Since the enforcement powerfulness is co-terminus with the legislative power, a Government Order issued by the Government banning cattle slaughter is precise overmuch sustainable and has to beryllium enforced, arsenic it has the unit of law.”
