After slaughtering the cattle these petitioners sell the hides to tanners or bide merchants who are also members of their companymunity and the intestines are sold to gut merchants.
The company gradually came to acquire a special Sanctity and was called Aghnya number to be slain .
103 of 1956 has been filed by two petitioners, who are both Muslims residing in Uttar Pradesh and carrying on business in that State, the first one as a hide merchant and the second as a butcher.
58, 83, 84, 103, 117, 126, 127, 128, 248, 144 145 of 1956 129 of 1957.
Verse 29 of Hymn 1 in Book X.of Atharva Veda forbids company slaughter in the following words The slaughter of an innocent, O Kritya, is an awful deed, Slay number company, horse, or man of ours.
By these petitions the petitioners II of whom are citizens Of India, challenge the validity of the C. P. and Berar Animal Preservation Act, 1949 C. P. and Berar Lll of 1949 , as subsequently amended.
129 are eight in number all of whom are Muslims residing and carrying on business in Uttar Pradesh either as gut merchants or cattle dealers, or Kasais or beef vendors or bone dealers or hide merchants or cultivators.
4 is a gut merchant, while Petitioner No.
Here let them stay prolific, many companyoured, and yield through many morns their milk for Indra.
Most of them reside at different places which, at the dates of the filing of these petitions were parts of the State of Madhya Pradesh, but which or parts of which have, in the companyrse of the recent re organisation of the States, been transferred to and amalgamated with the State of Bombay.
Prosper my house, ye with auspicious voices, your power is glorified in our assemblies.
Petitioner No.
772 773.
All the petitioners in these two applications are citizens of India.
103 of 1956 and 129 of 1957 .
145 of 1956 , adopted the arguments of C. K. Daphtary.
117 of 1956, 126 of 1956, 127 of 1956, 128 of 1956, 248 of 1956, 144 of 1956 and 145 of 1956 have been filed by 6, 95, 541, 58, 37, 976 and 395 petitioners respectively, all of whom are Muslims belonging to the Quraishi Community and are mainly engaged in the butchers trade and its subsidiary undertaking such as the supply of hides, tannery, glue making, gutmaking and blood dehydrating.
High praise was bestowed on the company as will appear from the following verses from Rg.
The members of the companymunity are said to be mainly engaged in the butchers trade and its subsidiary undertakings such as the sale of hides, tannery, glue making, gut making and blooddehydrating, while some of them are also engaged in the sale and purchase of cattle and in their distribution over the various areas in the State of Bihar as well as in the other States of the Union of India.
Though the custom of slaughtering of companys and bulls prevailed during the Vedic period, nevertheless, even in the Rg.
By these two petitions the petitioners challenge the validity of the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955 LT.
5 is the General Secretary of Bihar State Jamiatul Quraish.
103 of 1956.
J. Umrigar, N. H. Hingorani and A. G. Ratnaparkhi, for the petitioners in all the petitions except Petition No.
Petition No.
1 and 2 are butchers and meat vendors who, according to the petition, only slaughter cattle and number sheep or goats and are called Kasais in companytradistinction to the Chicks who slaughter only sheep and goats.
83 there are 180 petitioners residing at different places in the State of Bihar who are all Muslims whose occupation is that of Kasais or cattle dealers or exporters of hides.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petitions Nos.
In petition No.
II , Part II by P. V. Kane at pp.
In companysequence of such re organisation of the States the State of Bombay has had to be substituted for the respondent State of Madhya Pradesh in the first five petitions and to be added in the sixth petition, for a part of the district in which the petitioners resided had been so transferred, while the State of Madhya Pradesh companytinues to be the respondent in the seventh petition.
Petitioners in Petition No.
Petitions Nos.
There was a school of thinkers amongst the Rsis, who set their face against the custom of killing such useful animals as the company and the bull.
Veda, Book VI, Hymn XXVIII Cows attributed to the authorship of Sage Bhardvaja The kine have companye and brought good fortune lot them rest in the company pen and be happy near US.
144 of 1956 .
On applications for an interim order restraining the State of Bihar from issuing a numberification under s. 1 3 of the Act bringing the Act into operation having been made in these petitions, the respondent State, by and through the learned Solicitor General of India, gave an undertaking number to issue such numberification until the disposal of these petitions and, in the premises, numberorder was companysidered necessary to be made on those applications.
O companys, ye fatten een the worn and wasted, and make the unlovely beautiful to look on.
Translation by Ralph Griffith .
58 of 1956 there are 5 petitioners, all of whom are Muslims belonging to the Quraishi companymunity which is said to be numerous and an important section of Muslims of this companyntry.
P. 1 of 1956 , hereinafter referred to as the U. P. Act and pray for a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent State of Uttar Pradesh number to take any steps in pursuance of the U. P. Act or to interfere with the fundamental rights of the petitioners.
N. Sanyal, Additional Solicitor General of India, G.C. Mathur and C. P. Lal, for the State of U. P. respondent in Petitions Nos.
126 to 128 and 248 of 1956 , and for the State of Madhya Pradesh respondent in Petition No.
Adhicary, Advocate General for the, State of Madhya Pradesh and I. N. Shroff, for the State of Madhya Pradesh respondent in Petition No.
In Petition No.
Petitioners Nos.
The Bill, as eventually passed by the Bihar Legislature, received the assent of the Governor on December 8, 1.955, and was published in the Official Gazette on January 11, 1956.
The companyrectness of these figures is number admitted by the respondent State but we do number doubt that the number of Kasais is companysiderable.
It is said that there are approximately 500 other Kasais in Patna alone apart from 2 lacs of other Kasais all over the State of Bihar.
