JAIPUR PADA MEAT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION HAVING ITS REGISTRATION OFFICE AT JAIPUR Vs. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL JAIPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE grievance of the petitioner Jaipur Pada Meat Merchants Associations (here-in-after called as `the Association') as brought out in the writ petition is that the action of the respondents in issuing the notification dated 8. 2. 1989 published in the Rajasthan Gazette (extraordinary) on 9. 2. 1989 whereby the word `buffalo' has been deleted from the list of animals to be slaughtered in the Slaughter Houses under the Jaipur Municipal Corporation is not valid and prayer is made to allow the petitioner association to slaughter the buffalos as well in the Slaughter Houses maintained by the Municipal Corporation as per regulations and further to quash the notice issued in the month of July 1989 to certain persons for not allowing the slaughtering the buffalos (here-in-after called `pada' ).

(2.) VIDE notification dated 2. 7. 1979 published on 5. 7. 1979, copy of which is attached as Annexure-1 issued u/s 295 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 1959, the buffalo animal was included in the list of animals which could be slaughtered, but after about 10 years of such notification, vide impugned notification Annexure-2 the insertion of word `buffalo' in the notification (Annexure-1) has been revoked.

(3.) IT is the contention of the respondents of the written statement that for the reasons that the buffalo has not been mentioned in the notification for the purpose of slaughtering, it is to be deemed that the slaughtering of buffalo is prohibited.