By Scroll Staff
The Allahabad High Court has upheld the detention of a man under the National Security Act for allegedly slaughtering a cow and two calves in March 2025, reported Live Law on Monday.
Cow slaughter triggers spontaneous “strong emotions and violent reactions for obvious injury to religious beliefs of a large section of the society”, held a bench of Justices JJ Munir and Sanjiv Kumar in an order delivered on Thursday.
Such acts have an “inherent potentiality” of triggering “widespread ripples in society that would affect the even tempo of life”, the bench added.
On March 15, 2025, the police allegedly discovered the remains of a calf in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, reported Live Law. The discovery coincided with the Hindu festival of Holi. It had triggered unrest among the Hindu community.
According to the police, a group of residents and members of Hindutva organisations had gathered at the site, shouted slogans and blocked a road while demanding the arrest of those involved.
The petitioner and his associates were arrested after an investigation, said the police. They also claimed that the accused persons had confessed to slaughtering a cow and two calves in a jungle.
This story was originally published in scroll.in. Read the full story here.
