Allahabad High Court on illegal operation of meat shops and slaughter houses in Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh Government, Central Government, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Animal Welfare Board of India, State Food Safety Commissioner, Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation, UP Pollution Control Board, Central Issued notice to the Pollution Control Board and others on Wednesday.

Hearing a PIL filed by Ghaziabad councilor Himanshu Mittal, a division bench of Chief Justice Pritinkar Diwakar and Justice Soumitra Dayal Singh directed the above respondents to file their replies by May 3, 2023.

In this public interest litigation, the issue of ignoring the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and other related laws and various orders of the Supreme Court has been raised in the entire state.

On behalf of the petitioner, his lawyer Akash Vashisht told the court that out of about 3,000 meat shops and slaughterhouses in Ghaziabad, only 17 have a license under Section 31 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

And only 215 meat shops are registered with the Food Safety Department.

He told that in the case of Lakshmi Narayan Modi, the Supreme Court constituted a committee on slaughterhouses for each state.

This type of committee is completely inactive in the entire state.

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