https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183878 Section 12 of the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950 was treated as a narrow exception to the general prohibition on slaughter of healthy animals, and therefore had to be strictly construed. On that basis, exemption could not be used to permit slaughter of healthy cows on Bakr d for an optional religious practice, because such slaughter was not an essential or necessary religious requirement and remained outside the statutory exception. The discussion also accepted that the writ petitioners had sufficient locus standi in a public interest challenge, since the exemption affected a section of society and the standing finding was not disputed. en-us Wed, 16 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183878 Section 12 of the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950 was treated as a narrow exception to the general prohibition on slaughter of healthy animals, and therefore had to be strictly construed. On that basis, exemption could not be used to permit slaughter of healthy cows on Bakr d for an optional religious practice, because such slaughter was not an essential or necessary religious requirement and remained outside the statutory exception. The discussion also accepted that the writ petitioners had sufficient locus standi in a public interest challenge, since the exemption affected a section of society and the standing finding was not disputed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 16 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183878