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A Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed for four weeks the Centre’s May 23 notification on the trade of cattle for slaughter even as the ruling BJP seemed firmly behind the government’s move.
The Bench of Justice M V Muralidharan and Justice C V Karthikeyan directed the Centre to file its reply in four weeks.
Selvagomathy, an activist-cum-lawyer who had had filed the PIL before the Madurai Bench, said the order would be applicable for all India, since the respondents were both state and Central governments.
Several petitions challenged the Centre’s notification, which has banned the
