Two senior officials of Jammu and Kashmir – Additional Advocate General Vishal Sharma and the Deputy Advocate General Parimoksh Seth – have been sacked for their role in the controversial beef ban case.
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Jammu & Kashmir beef ban has created a divide between the ruling coalition partners in the state, with PDP saying the beef ban can not be accepted while the Bhartiya Janata Party is insisting for strict implementation of the 150-year prohibitory rule.
In a statement issued here, Geelani said the economic blockade of the Kashmir will have very serious consequences and the situation will be out of control for everybody.
Vishal Sharma when contacted said that he has been made a scapegoat as state has no defence in the matter which is likely to be listed before court again next month.
Earlier this month, Sharma was moved from sensitive Home department to Education department after Jammu and Kashmir High Court ordered that a little-known law passed in 1932 banning cow slaughter and the sale of beef in the state be strictly enforced.
The Public Interest Litigation was filed in 2014 by Parimoksh Seth who later this year was engaged as Deputy Advocate General by the state government.
BJP General Secretary Narinder Singh, however, contested the state government order and said “we lodge a strong protest over the government action”. If something is “Halal” (allowed) in a religion, why should there be a ban on it? “Instead of implementing its own law, the government was pressurizing me to withdraw the PIL, ” Seth said, adding that he, however, preferred to sacrifice his new assignment.
Urging that ban on slaughtering bovine animals in the state be revoked, Awami Ittihaad Party president and MLA Langate Er Rasheed announced launch of signature campaign from Friday in each district head quarter in Kashmir urging MLAs to vote in favor of the bill, it submitted prior to NC.
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Barrister Abdul Majeed Trumbo in his statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of Kashmir would never succumb to any pressure and no power on earth could deter them from pursuing the norms regarding forbidden and permitted food items laid by Islam.
