“‘Cow smuggling can hurt religious sentiments, constitutes threat to public order’: J&K High Court”, Opindia, December 7, 2024:
“On 21st November, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court observed that smuggling of cows and cattle can hurt religious sentiments and is a threat to public order.
The court made the observation while upholding the preventive decision of a ‘cattle smuggler’ named Shakeel Mohammed.
A single-judge Bench of Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi stated, “Bovine animals include cows and calves and their illegal smuggling is always viewed by one community only for the purpose of slaughter and, therefore, there is a feeling amongst the people belonging to such community, that the activity hurts their religious sentiments…..”
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