Slaughterhouse permit cannot be denied only because city is ‘religious’, says Madhya Pradesh HC
The Mandsaur Municipal Council had denied the petitioner permission to open a slaughterhouse on the grounds that the city is a sacred one.
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The Madhya Pradesh High Court has said that refusing to issue a permit for a slaughterhouse on the grounds that a city is religious in nature is “wholly unacceptable”.
A bench of Justice Pranay Verma on December 17 said that a 2011 notification issued by the state government under the Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, which declared a 100-metre radius in Mandsaur city a sacred area, did not “imply that the entire city should be considered as sacred”.
The court was hearing a petition by a man named Sabir Hussain against the refusal by the Mandsaur Municipal Council to grant him a no-objection certificate for establishing a slaughterhouse to slaughter buffaloes and trade in meat.
Hussain was refused permission on the grounds that Mandsaur was a “sacred” city. He moved the court against this refusal on December 1, 2021.
In his representations before the municipal council for permission to open the slaughterhouse, Hussain sought a no-objection certificate under Section 264 of the Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, Live Law reported.
This section allows a municipality to fix places for the slaughter of animals and prohibits the sale or slaughter of animals in those places.
He also noted that the 2011 state government notification only designated a 100-meter radius as “sacred”, according to Live Law. He told the municipal council in his representations that...
