Hearing on a public interest litigation seeking a ban on supply of animals to the Doon valley, the high court of Uttarakhand has directed the Dehradun district magistrate to get all the slaughter houses in the valley checked within two weeks and submit a detailed report in the court.
Hearing the PIL, the division bench of chief justice Ramesh Ranganathan and justice RC Khulbe set March 16 as the next date of hearing.
According to the case details, Dehradun resident Varun Sobti had filed a PIL in the high court stating that on September 29, 2018, the high court of Uttarakhand had ordered the state government to close the abattoirs being operated illegally and the slaughter of animals in the open.
The petitioner has stated that this order has not been implemented in Dehradun as animals are being slaughtered in the open even as slaughter houses are also operating illegally.
Considering this, the sale of meat should be prohibited completely in Dehradun, the petitioner contended.