Guest guest Posted January 7, 2003 Report Share Posted January 7, 2003 India's most populous state bans cow slaughter LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday banned the slaughter of cows. India's Hindu majority reveres cows, but beef is served in restaurants and hotels in big cities. A few of India's 29 states have previously banned cow slaughter, prompting traders to carry cattle across state lines to slaughter houses. Under the ban, anyone found slaughtering cows in Uttar Pradesh can be jailed for up to seven years and fined $290, said Ratan Kumar Srivastava of the state Commission to Help Cows. Uttar Pradesh, which now has some 180 million residents, enacted a law in 1955 banning most cattle slaughter, but allowed older cows and defective calves to be killed, Srivastava said. On Monday, officials raided slaughter houses across the state and prevented 1,164 cows from being killed, Srivastava said. Hindu hard-liners have been campaigning for a national ban on cow slaughter in India, a nation of more than 1 billion people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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