Sale of meat: Order declaring space close to Mansa Devi temple as holy withdrawn

A notification ordering the withdrawal of the December 21, 2022, holy space order was issued by the City Native Our bodies division on Friday.

City native our bodies minister, Vipul Goel stated the holy space declaration was withdrawn by the state authorities because the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket had stayed the operation of the December 21, 2022 order.

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Officers stated that the municipal commissioner can nonetheless regulate the slaughtering, sale and buy of meat merchandise within the space being vested with powers beneath the Haryana Municipal Company Act.

Justice Vinod Bhardwaj of the excessive courtroom had on April 17, 2023, stayed the operation of the holy space order after the petitioners contended that the 2022 order prohibiting slaughtering, sale and buy of meat merchandise within the demarcated zone didn’t seek advice from any statutory provision within the train of which such a declaration could be issued.

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The petitioners which included native restaurateurs and shopkeepers contended that within the absence of invocation of any such substantive energy, the enforcement of restraint towards the petitioners from carrying on their enterprise is violative of the rights granted to them.

The petitioners stated they had been duly issued licences by the competent authority to deal within the sale and buy of meat and meat merchandise within the stated space and that they had been finishing up enterprise as per the regulation.

The holy space was demarcated to ban the slaughtering, sale and buy of meat and meat merchandise in Panchkula together with the industrial zone in Mansa Devi Advanced (MDC) as nicely.

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The demarcation of the prohibited zone ranging from Mata Mansa Devi Temple alongside the border of Mansa Devi Advanced (MDC) and cantonment space in the direction of the south boundary as much as Singh Dwar protecting Sector-5 of MDC.

It additionally included an space from Singh Dwar alongside the border of MDC and Chandigarh in the direction of the west boundary as much as the sunshine level close to Chandigarh boundary close to IT Park protecting Sectors 5-A, 5-B, 5-D and 6 of MDC.

The prohibited zone additionally included the sunshine level close to Chandigarh boundary close to IT Park in the direction of Dolphin Chowk as much as the boundary of Sector-4 MDC and reserved forest boundary.