HC nod to set up slaughter house in 'holy city' Mandsaur

REASON | Entire city cannot be considered as sacred area

- PTI

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a civic official in Mandsaur to issue an NOC sought by a man for opening a buffalo slaughterhouse, terming its objection for denying the permission as 'wholly unacceptable'.

The local body's argument for rejecting the butcher's application for the No Objection Certificate (NOC) was that Mandsaur is a religious city and hence permission to open a slaughterhouse cannot be issued.

"The reason as has been taken in the return that Mandsaur is a religious city hence permission for establishment of a slaughter house cannot be given is wholly unacceptable," Justice Pranay Verma of the HC's Indore bench said on December 17.