Cow Protection Movement

Besides, ahead of the cabinet meeting the Council of Ministers expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the consecration of Lord Shri Ram in Ayodhya

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the response of the Centre and the Delhi government on a plea seeking direction to authorities to take steps to stop cow slaughter in the national capital. The petition sought a court direction to authorities for a separate cow protection cell in every district of Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi government and the Delhi Police after hearing the petition. It granted six weeks to the authorities to file counter affidavits or status reports in the matter and listed it for further hearing on May 17. During the hearing on Thursday, Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma and central government standing counsel Ajay Digpaul submitted that "it is a genuine case and cow is respected in this country". Petitioner Ajay Gautam said there are 15 districts in Delhi which have over 200 police stations, 52 police posts with a strength of about 80,000 police ...

He said demands related to "caste, region and language cannot bring about a change in society but Hindutva can"