Gujarat HC restores meat ban near Somnath temple hours after scrapping it
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The Gujarat High Court on Friday struck down a ban on the sale of meat imposed by the state government near the Somnath temple, only to reverse its order within four hours, The Indian Express reported.
The court was hearing a petition filed by six restaurants challenging the administration’s August 10 notification banning the sale, storage, distribution and cooking of non-vegetarian food along roads leading to and within half a km of the temple in Veraval.
At 3 pm, a single-judge bench allowed the plea and lifted the ban. Immediately after the ruling, the state government sought time to challenge it before a division bench.
The government pleader argued that the position on the ground had not changed since August 10 and requested the operation of the single-judge bench’s order be kept in abeyance for five working days, The Indian Express reported.
However, the judge declined to keep the order in abeyance.
The state government then filed an urgent appeal before the division bench, before the single-judge bench’s order had been published.
Before 7 pm, the division bench had stayed the operation of the single-judge bench’s order and kept the meat ban in force.
The division bench will hear the matter again on December 26.
During a hearing on October 21, the state had strongly defended the ban, arguing that the religious...