Supreme Court stays Madras HC’s cow slaughter ban order in win for Vijay’s Tamil Nadu government

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Madras High Court order that imposed a state-wide ban on the slaughter of cows and calves in Tamil Nadu after chief minister Vijay’s TVK government approached the top court.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the interim order while issuing notice on a Special Leave Petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government.

The bench said the final paragraph of the high court’s order, which directed the state-wide ban, appeared to require “correction”, as per a report by LiveLaw.

TVK government’s plea

In its petition, the Tamil Nadu government challenged the high court’s May 27 order, which directed the chief secretary and the director general of police to ensure that no cow or calf was slaughtered anywhere in the state, either on the eve of Bakrid on May 28 or on any other day.