The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a civic official in Mandsaur to issue an No Objection Certificate (NOC) sought by a man for opening a buffalo slaughterhouse, terming its objection for denying the permission as “wholly unacceptable”.
The local body’s argument for rejecting the butcher’s application for the NOC was that Mandsaur is a religious city and hence permission for a slaughterhouse cannot be given. “The reason given that Mandsaur is a religious city hence permission…cannot be given is wholly unacceptable,” Justice Pranay Verma of the HC’s Indore Bench said on December 17.
The State government, in a notification issued on December 9, 2011, had declared the 100-metre radius of Lord Shiva’s Pashupatinath temple in Mandsaur as a “sacred area”.
In his application before the CMO, Mandsaur resident Sabir Hussain, a butcher by profession, said the place where he wants to open a slaughterhouse is far away from the “sacred area”.
The HC, while looking into the facts, said the State government has declared only a place within a radius of 100 metres in Mandsaur as “sacred area”, hence the entire city cannot be considered a “sacred area”.
Published – December 24, 2024 09:38 am IST
