Existing legal guidelines can curb unlawful cow commerce: Odisha CB-CID to HC

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: The State CB-CID has claimed earlier than the Orissa High Court that the Orissa Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1960, Orissa Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1966 and the provisions beneath part 428 and 429 of Indian Penal Code are being applied meticulously within the State to forestall unlawful transportation of cow.

In an affidavit DSP (CB-CID) Cuttack, Saroj Kanta Mohanta additionally claimed that the present provision made in Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, 1960 and Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1960 is sufficient to forestall cruelty in addition to curb unlawful cow slaughter. 

“As a whole, the Odisha Police is implementing the existing laws swiftly when the matter is either reported to the local police or the police get any such information from any other sources,” he said. The affidavit was filed in response to a PIL in search of a courtroom monitored Special Task Force to forestall unlawful transportation of cows and prohibition of cow slaughter within the state.

A metropolis primarily based social activist Jayanti Das had filed the petition.Taking be aware of it the division bench of Chief Justice S Muralidhar and Justice RK Pattanaik directed the petitioner’s counsel BK Ragada to file a rejoinder by September 13, the date fastened for subsequent listening to on the matter.

The report on circumstances of unlawful transportation connected to the affidavit indicated that the variety of circumstances had gone up from 117 in 2017 to 371 in 2021. Of the 1,033 circumstances registered through the 5 years as many as 143 circumstances have been detected within the north Odisha districts of Balasore (57), Bhadrak (62) and Mayurbhanj (24).

The report revealed an growing variety of circumstances of unlawful transportation of cows have been being registered following interception of automobiles and subsequent seizures within the State. In the affidavit, Mohanta stated, Cuttack DCP had taken motion towards unlawful cow transporters by registering 13 circumstances in 2021 and in addition taken a number of preventive steps to examine it.