Writ to prevent slaughter of temple cows

Chennai: A public interest writ petition, seeking to prevent donated temple cows from being sold to slaughter houses, has been filed in the Madras high court. The first bench comprising CJ A K Ganguly and justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla ordered notice to the commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) Department, returnable in three weeks. The petition, filed by Elephant G Rajendran, managing trustee of In Defence of Environment and Animals (IDEA), contended that despite an April 2002 order of the high court banning sale of temple cows to abattoirs, a large number of temples in the state continued to sell them. According to Rajendran, though the court has asked the temples to hand over aged cows only to goshalas and keep a tab on their maintenance, many temples sold them to unregistered, dubious goshalas. These goshalas later sent the animals to slaughter houses without informing the donors.

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