A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta sought the response of the Union government and listed the matter for hearing after four weeks.
In a landmark ruling delivered on Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court has imposed a blanket ban on mass animal sacrifice within the premises of the Bolla Kali temple in Balurghat in South Dinajpur, following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a consortium of NGOs citing cruelty against animals.
The famous Chhatar Yatra of presiding deity Maa Manikeswari was taken out on the streets traversing three kilometer distance in Bhawanipatna, the district headquarters township.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday claimed that 'Shatru Bhairavi Yaga' ritual involving the sacrifice of animals was being conducted at a temple in Kerala, targeting him, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and the Congress government in the state.
"For a long period, people had appealed to us to stop such animal sacrifice. So this year, in a meeting of our temple committee, we unanimously banned animal sacrifice on the temple premises,"
India was a country where people lived together with animals and respected their lives. All this has changed in the last 50 years. What can you say about a country whose government says, happily, that 52 per cent of our exports are meat, fish and leather?
The Tripura merger agreement made it mandatory for the government to continue the sponsorship of temples run by the Hindu princely rulers.
The primitive Dongri Kondhs of Niyamgiri hills of Huteshi village celebrated “Maria traditional festival” with great enthusiasm and religious fervour.…
Hundreds of animals were sacrificed on Thursday at Bhawanipatna in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on the occasion of famous Chhatar Jatra…
