The Bombay High Court has refused to relax beef ban for the period of Eid as pleaded by petitioners. The high court has said that it is not inclined to grant any drastic interim relief that would amount to staying section 5 of the amended act.
A division bench of justices AS Oka and VL Achliya, hearing a batch of petitions seeking relaxation on the ban on slaughter and sale of meat of bulls from September 25 to 27 on the occasion of Bakri Eid, declined to grant any interim relief to the Maharashtra Act by which the ban was imposed.
"We are not inclined to grant any drastic interim relief at this stage which would amount to a stay on section 5 of the Maharashtra Preservation of Animals (Amendment) Act," the court said.
The court refused to accept the petitioners' contention that slaughter of animals and their sacrifice forms an essential part of the Muslim community's religious practice.
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