Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 521 · Decided 16 November 1994
State of West Bengal ETC. ETC. v. Ashutosh Lahiri and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 521 · [1994] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 515
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6790/1983
- Decided
- 16 November 1994
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, B.L. HANSARIA, S.B. MAJMUDAR (3-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution
Headnote
B West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950-Section 12- Exemption of slaughter of healthy cows on Bakri-ldd day-Validity challenged-Whether such slaughter of cows by members of Muslim community on Bakri Idd was an essential requirement of Muslim religion- C Held, No, as such an exemption was challenging the validity of exemption of slaughter of scheduled animal, namely, cows, from the operation of the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950 on Bakri-Idd day. The writ petitioners contended that the State of West D Bengal had wrongly invoked section 12 of the Act when it
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