A Jammu and Kashmir High Court full bench set aside an earlier order on Friday directing enforcement of legal bar on bovine slaughter and beef sale, saying state government “shall consider” review of laws and take decisions within Constitutional framework to ensure no inter-religious conflict arises.
The bench comprising Justices Muzaffar Hussain Attar, Ali Muhammad Magrey and Tashi Rabstan, whose orders restored status quo ante, had been asked by the Supreme Court on 5 October to resolve the beef ban issue as division benches of the HC – one in Srinagar and another in Jammu – had differed over the matter after which the state government had moved the apex court.
The bench disposed of petitions and vacated the court orders passed from time to time on the issue.
The full bench has been constituted after the Supreme Court kept in abeyance for two months the 9 September order of a division bench of the state High Court directing the police authorities to enforce the more than century-old beef ban in the state.
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