{"id":47701,"date":"2017-04-07T03:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=47701"},"modified":"2017-04-07T03:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:56:58","slug":"bombay-hc-junks-14-yr-old-ban-meat-sale-mahavir-jayanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bombay-hc-junks-14-yr-old-ban-meat-sale-mahavir-jayanti","title":{"rendered":"Bombay HC junks 14-yr-old ban on meat sale on Mahavir Jayanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45442\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bombay-hc-refuses-parole-plea-prisoner-allows-surgery-hospital\/bhc-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" 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=\"bhc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-45442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bombay HC junks 14-yr-old ban on meat sale on Mahavir Jayanti\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/bhc.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bombay HC junks 14-yr-old ban on meat sale on Mahavir Jayanti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the ongoing hearing by a Bombay High Court bench of a plea against the ban on meat sale during Jain festivals since 2015, another bench recently quashed a 14-year-old bar against mutton vending during Mahavir Jayanti.<\/p>\n<p>Government counsel Hiten Venegaonkar gave this information about Justice A S Oka quashing the 14-year-old government&#8217;s order banning the mutton sale on Mahavir Jayanti to the bench of Justice Anoop Mohta, which is hearing a plea against the meat sale during the Jains&#8217; &#8216;Paryushan&#8217; period.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mohta&#8217;s bench is hearing the Bombay Mutton Dealers Association plea against the ban imposed by the government and the Municipal Corporation on slaughter of animals and sale of meat during &#8216;Paryushan&#8217; in Mumbai since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Venegaonkar told Justice Mohta&#8217;s bench that Justice Oka&#8217;s bench on March 31 this year had set aside a 2003 circular of the Maharashtra government.<\/p>\n<p>The circular had directed all the municipal corporations and councils to ensure that slaughter houses and meat shops remain closed on the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti every year.<\/p>\n<p>The government will now have to go through this order of Justice Oka&#8217;s bench and take further decision, Venegaonkar said.<\/p>\n<p>Venegaonkar also pointed out that apart from the 2003 circular, there are two other circulars imposing similar ban.<\/p>\n<p>The bench headed by Justice Oka, while setting aside the 2003 circular, had ruled that the government failed to point out the statutory provisions which supported such a diktat.<\/p>\n<p>There is no law under which the government could issue such directions to the civic bodies, the judges said in March 31 order.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mohta, who had asked the government yesterday to come up with a mechanism to fix dates on which there would be no sale of meat owing to religious festivals, adjourned the hearing today for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing hearing by a Bombay High Court bench of a plea against the ban on meat sale during Jain festivals since 2015, another bench recently quashed a 14-year-old bar against mutton vending during Mahavir Jayanti. 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