LAXMI NARAIN MODI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WE have passed a detailed order on 9.7.2013 expressing the apprehension as to whether the Committees constituted, following our earlier order dated 23.8.2012, are effectively functioning and whether proper steps are being taken for proper implementation of the provisions of the various legislations which have been passed, with regard to the transportation of animals, maintaining of slaughter houses, effluent and solid waste disposal etc.

(2.) VIDE our order dated 9.7.2013, we had directed all the State Governments/Union Territories to file their action taken reports within one month. Few of the States have filed the action taken reports detailing the functioning of the Committees constituted. We also directed the MoEF to finalize the guidelines for the effective and proper functioning of the State Committees for overseeing the functioning of the slaughter houses. In obedience to our direction, the MoEF, on 27.8.2013, filed a compliance report enclosing the broad framework to be followed by the State Committees for effective supervision of the slaughter houses and also with regard to the transportation of animals, loading and unloading, effluent disposal, solid waste disposal and also with regard to the periodical inspection of slaughter houses by the respective State Animal Welfare Boards.

(3.) ADEQUATE ventilation shall be provided in every wagon and the upper door of one side of wagon shall be kept open and properly fixed and the upper door of the wagon shall have wire gauge closely welded mesh arrangements to prevent burning cinders from the engines entering the wagon and leading to fire breakout. SPACE REQUIREMENT DURING ROAD TRAVEL IN TRANSPORT OF PIGS BY ROAD Goods vehicles of capacity of 5 or 4.5 tons, which are generally used for transportation of animals, shall carry not more than twenty pigs. In the case of large goods vehicles and containers, partition shall be provided at every two or three metres across the width to prevent the crowding and trapping of pigs.