Police said that Nanhe Ali had learnt from somewhere that few of his community people had purchased a cow for slaughter and were planning to serve the animal’s meat at a function.
Police said on a complaint by Faridabad's Sanjay Colony resident Bajranji, the five youths too were booked in a cross-case under The Haryana Gauvansh and Gausamvardhan Act of 2015.
The type of beef exported was not specified, but the meat exported appeared to be mostly from buffaloes as the report specified the animal for imports by Myanmar from India.
CM Manohar Parrikar assured the Assembly on Tuesday that there will be no shortage of meat in Goa and his government has kept open its option of importing it from Karnataka.
"Everybody in the country has a right to eat beef. The gau rakshaks have the right to lodge a police complaint... However, they don't have the authority to take the law in their hands," Athawale said.
Cows, considered sacred by Hindus, have been at the centre of debate in the country for a long time. India, being a union of states has different laws for cow and cattle slaughter in different states.
Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Sunday said beef is not banned in the state and tourists would get whatever dishes they want.
In a major turnaround in the Junaid Khan lynching case, the police on Sunday claimed that the killing had nothing to do with beef, instead it was a result of an altercation over a seat in the Delhi-Mathura train
A man was beaten to death by a mob in Ramgarh distrcit of Jharkhand on Thursday on suspicion that he was carrying beef in his vehicle.
The incident took place when the four were on their way back home in Haryana on an EMU train from Delhi.
Delhi Police said they received an information from Kerala House officials about the matter and security was stepped up as a precautionary measure.
Describing those taking part in beef fests as "devils", Kumar said cows were not slaughtered even in Mecca, Medina and Vatican City.
Kumar further said that the ‘Arabs shunned beef for many years and that eating beef is something that has come up recently among Muslims’.
Mamata Banerjee today came out in support of Bollywood actress Kajol who was trolled online for posting a video of a beef dish, saying it was a dangerous trend that some people were becoming intolerant of food habits of others.
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