To: Shri M. Hamid Ansari (Vice President of India), Her Excellency Pratibha Devi Singh Patil (The President of India, New Delhi), Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Chief Minister, West Bengal), Dr. B. A. Agrawal (Member Secretary(Law Commission) ), Sri G. D. Gautama, IAS (Addl. Chief Secretary), Hon'ble Sardar Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of India), Smt. Meira Kumar (Speaker Lok Sabha), The Kolkata Police Commissioner (COMMISSIONER OF POLICE), Sri Rabi Lal Maitra (MIC, Law & Parliamentary Affairs ), The Director General of Police- West Bengal (DGP, West Bengal), Hon'ble Chief Justice S.H.Kapadia (Chief Justice of India), and Sri K.Y.S Manhas, WBJS
Subject: Protect cows and their sacrifice be ban in India - Naresh Kadyan
Letter: Greetings, ,

As per Law of Land - West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act 1950, Sacrifice of Cows on Bakrid – is illegal because it is not an essential religious requirement. High Court decided this after 12 Years that it is not essential religious requirement. West Bengal Government appealed against order of HC in Supreme Court. On 16-11-94, Supreme Court also delivered its final VERDICT striking down the appeal of West Bengal Government; giving detailed references of HISTORY. Thus sacrifice of COW PROGENY is illegal as per law of land; as clarified by Supreme Court. Thereafter also 15 years have passed, wherein you have not taken adequate action. Thus the crime of killing cows on Bakrid in increasing year after year due to inaction of Police department. West Bengal and India as whole has lost great amount of its most precious cattle wealth in these 29 years. This is 30th year. Kindly do take action soon to stop the crime. People in north do not believe that such a large number of cows are openly sacrificed and Police is silent spectator. Cows from all parts of India come to Bengal for agriculture or MILK purpose, But half of them are killed here and half is exported illegally to Bangladesh.

Many Muslims and Muslim organizations are also in favor of Cow protection. Highest Islamic body – DARUL ULOOM DEOBAND, has given many fatwa – advice not to sacrifice cows. Prophet Mohammed had said “Cow’s milk and ghee is medicine and its beef is disease.” And “I would stand against a cow killer on the day of Kayamat.” Hence kindly perform you constitutional duty to implement LAW AND ORDER=SAVE COWS.

Section 9 prescribes punishment for abetment of offences or even attempts to commit any such offence under the Act. Thus all who are taking cows are attempting to commit such an offence and you should stop them. Your inaction amounts to abetment or contempt of Supreme Court ? You may take following steps –to save dignity of LAW:

1. Advertise in print and visual media and apply posters that “Sacrifice of cow is illegal as per law of land Or essence of order of S.C. or wordings of Islam

2. Do not allow any cattle market where cows are bought and sold, stop movements of cow on every road, lanes –prior to bakrid because it is attempt to commit offence.

3. Take custody of cows prior to bakrid and return them after Bakrid or Instruct OC of all PS to count COWS before and after Bakrid

You know better what else can be done to save cows for saving dignity of LAW. Kindly do the needful soon. A Line of confirmation will be highly appreciated.

Few lines of the ORDER OF SUPREME COURT DT 16-11-94 are as follows:-

1. The Act is meant for controlling the slaughter of animals including the cows and buffaloes and this is with the object of increasing the supply of milk and avoiding the wastage of animal power necessary for improvement of agriculture; But so far as healthy animals like cows are concerned there is a complete ban on slaughtering them.

2. Therefore, it is not essential for Muslims to earn religious merit by insisting on sacrificing only healthy cows on Bakri Idd. Consequently, the State will not have any jurisdiction or power to invoke section 12 for fulfilling such optional religious practice of Muslim community.

3. No person shall slaughter any animal unless he has obtained in respect thereof a certificate under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) that the animal is fit for slaughter. As per sub-section (2) a certificate is required to be issued by the concerned authorities that the animal is over 14 years of age and is unfit for work or breeding or that the animal has become permanently incapacitated from work or breeding due to age, injury, deformity or any incurable disease.

4. As per section 5 even if there is a certificate enabling a person to get concerned animal slaughtered he cannot slaughter it in any place other than the place prescribed in that behalf. As per section 7 whoever contravenes the provision of the Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both. Section 8 makes the offences cognizable under the Act. Section 9 prescribes punishment for abetment of offences or even attempts to commit any such offence under the Act. The aforesaid relevant provisions clearly indicate the legisla­tive intention that healthy cows which are not fit to be slaugh­tered cannot be slaughtered at all. That is the thrust of sec­tion 4 of the Act. In other words there is total ban against slaughtering of healthy cows and other animals mentioned in the schedule under section 2 of the Act. This is the very essence of the Act

5. Now it becomes clear that when there is a total ban under the Act so far as slaughtering healthy cows which are not fit to be slaughtered as per section 4(1) is concerned, if that ban is to be lifted even for a day, it has to be shown that such lifting of ban is necessary for sub-serving any religious, medic­inal or research purpose

6. It does not appear to be obligato­ry that a person must sacrifice a cow.

7. As slaughter of cows on Bakri Idd was not an essential religious practice for Muslims, total ban on cow’s slaughter on all days including Bakri Idd day would not be violative of Article 25(1).

8. In this connection, Das C.J., referred to the historical background regarding cow slaughtering from the times of Mughal emperors. Mughal Emperor Babar saw the wisdom of prohibiting the slaughter of cows as and by way of religious sacrifice and directed his son Humayun to follow this. Similarly, Emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Ahmad Shah, it is said, prohibited cow slaughter.

9. In view of this settled legal position it becomes obvious that if there is no fundamental right of a Muslim to insist on slaugh­ter of healthy cow on Bakri Idd day, it cannot be a valid ground for exemption by the State under section 12 which would in turn enable slaughtering of such cows on Bakri Idd

10. Similarly it has to be held that if it is not necessary or essential to permit slaughter of a healthy cow for any religious purpose it would be equally not open to the State to invoke its exemption power under section 12 for such a religious purpose. We, therefore, entirely concur with the view of the High Court that slaughtering of healthy cows on Bakri Idd is not essential or required for religious purpose of Muslims.
Signed By:
Name Location Date
Abhishek Kadyan Delhi, India 11/05/2010
Oishimaya Sen Kolkata, India 11/05/2010
shamalatha rao Bangalore, IN 11/05/2010
Mervi Rantala Tampere, Finland 11/05/2010
Naresh Kadyan Rep. OIPA in India Delhi, India 11/05/2010
Sukanya Kadyan Delhi, IN 11/05/2010
Laxmi Dass Ex. Chairman, KVIC Delhi, IN 11/05/2010
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