{"id":45359,"date":"2016-10-19T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=45359"},"modified":"2016-10-19T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T01:00:48","slug":"notice-katju-petition-agnst-comments-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/notice-katju-petition-agnst-comments-beef","title":{"rendered":"Notice to Katju on petition agnst his comments on beef ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39428\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39428\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/beef-ban-petitions-to-come-up-for-final-hearing-in-bombay-hc-on-wednesday\/beef-ban-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/beef-ban.jpg?fit=285%2C177&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"285,177\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"beef ban\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/beef-ban.jpg?fit=285%2C177&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/beef-ban.jpg?fit=285%2C177&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-39428 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/beef-ban.jpg?resize=285%2C177&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Notice to Katju on petition agnst his comments on beef ?\" width=\"285\" height=\"177\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notice to Katju on petition agnst his comments on beef ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A court here has issued notice to retired Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju on a petition accusing him of having made &#8220;objectionable&#8221; remarks with regard to consumption of beef in his blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Sessions Judge Shuchi Srivastava passed the order on the review petition of advocate Rakesh Nath Pandey, who alleged that Justice Katju has hurt the sentiments of a major section of the society by attacking the Hindu belief that the cow was sacred and seeking repeal of the laws whereby slaughtering cow has been banned in many states.<\/p>\n<p>The ADJ has asked Justice Katju to file his reply by the next date of hearing on November 18.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was filed by Pandey challenging an order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate whereby his prayer for directing the police to lodge an FIR against Justice Katju was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Katju, who is also a former Chairman of the Press Council of India, has made a series of controversial statements on the communally sensitive issue of cow slaughter and beef ever since possession and sale of beef were made punishable with fine and five years in jail in Maharashtra in January last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Dadri lynching case of September last year wherein a 50-year-old man was beaten to death near Noida by a mob suspecting him of having slaughtered a cow and consumed its meat, Justice Katju came up with an outpouring of a number of scathing remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, in a Facebook post, Justice Katju wrote that he had a &#8220;danda&#8221; (stick) with which he wished to hit those who made a fuss over the issue of cow slaughter and beef.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court here has issued notice to retired Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju on a petition accusing him of having made &#8220;objectionable&#8221; remarks with regard to consumption of beef in his blog posts. 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