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IIT Madras students chew on beef to protest ban on cattle slaughter
May 29, 2017
A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,
conducted a beef festival, reflecting their anger against the Centre's
recent order against selling cattle thus imposing an indirect beef ban.
More than 50 students supported the cause by participating in this fest late on Sunday night.
Earlier
on May 27, Students' Federation of India staged a similar protest
in Kerala by eating beef outside University College, Trivandrum.
Another fest was also organised at different locations across Kerala.
Minister
for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan on Friday
ordered that the ministry has notified the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017 to ensure that the
sale of cattle is not meant for slaughter purposes.
"Aim of the
rules is very specific. It is only to regulate the animal market and the
sale of cattle in these markets, and ensuring welfare of cattle dealt
in market. And the rule provides for a strict animal monitoring
committee and an animal market committee at the local level," Vardhan
told ANI.
He said the seller and buyer both have to ensure that
the cattle is not being bought or sold in the market for slaughter
purposes.
"An undertaking to this effect has to be given to the
member secretary of the animal market committee from the seller as well
as the buyer," Vardhan added.
As per the notification, cattle is defined as "bulls, bullocks, cows, buffalos, steers, heifers and calves and camels".
The
rules also state that the purchaser shall not sacrifice the animal for
any religious purpose or sell it to a person outside the state without
permission and must keep in with the state's cattle protection laws.
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