Paryushan: Govt imposes statewide 9-day ban on slaughter

A circular issued by the slaughterhouse department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has ordered to close down all shops selling beef and mutton meat in the city.

Even as the urban development department issued orders to close all slaughter houses in the areas under municipal corporations and municipalities across the state during Paryushan, the Ahmedabad police commissioner Shivanand Jha has issued a notification imposing section 144 of the CrPC banning all animal slaughter in public.

The urban development department notification will apply to cities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar apart from the municipalities, which also enforces a ban on sale of beef and mutton while, Ahmedabad police commissioner Jha’s orders also enforces a blanket ban on killing of bovine animals in public, whether in a public or private places. Anyone violating this order, in Ahmedabad city, would have to face action under Section 144 of the CrPC.

Jha’s notification of September 9, says, “During the period of Paryushan from September 10 till 18, killing of animals like cow, buffalo, calf, bull or goat could affect peace and disrupt law and order, thus, killing of any animal outside a slaughter house or in public view or in private is completely banned during this period.”

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Another circular issued by the slaughterhouse department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has ordered to close down all shops selling beef and mutton meat in the city. Citing the Supreme Court directives, the circular mentions that as per the state government directions, all slaughter houses are to be closed from September 10 till 18.

Unaware about the enforcement of Section 144 in the city, the slaughterhouse department superintendent Pratapsinh Rathod issuing the AMC ban order questioned the move, “Why should this section be imposed in the city. This has nothing to do with Section 144. This matter is completely different. The AMC follows this ban since years as per the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations (BPMC) Act 1949. This has never been heard of in the past.”

On extending the ban to September 18 while the state government has issued this till September 17, Rathod said, “This is because on September 18 there is a celebration of the Digambar sect of Jains, so this has been extended for one more day.”
Jha, however, confirmed that this was not the first time that section 144 had been imposed for a ban on slaughter.

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