Laxmi Narain Modi vs Union of India

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2013 Supreme(SC) 794

K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE
Laxmi Narain Modi – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
Rakesh Khanna, ASG, Raj Panjwani, Sr. Advocate, Sanchar Anand, Manjit Singh, Irshad Ahmed, AAG, Pranab Kumar Mullick, Ms. Soma Mullick, Ms. Purnima Bhat Kak, Vijay Panjwani, Aditya Singh, Ms. Kiran Bhardwaj (for S.N. Terdal), D.S. Chadha, Pradhuman Gohil, Vikash Singh, Ms. Bina Madhavan, Anip Sachthey, Saakar Sardana, M. Yogesh Kanna, A. Santha Kumara, Ms. Sasi Kala, Aniruddha P. Mayee, Charudatta Mahindrakar, Mishra Saurabh, Ms. Asha G. Nair, Chetan Chawla, Suryanarayana Singh (for Ms. Pragati Neekhra), Ms. Aruna Mathur, Yusuf Khan, Ms. Nishi Sharma (for M/s. Arputham Aruna & Co.), Gopal Prasad, Jayesh Gaurav, Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, M.P. Singh, Sunil Fernandes, Ms. Insha Mir, Ms. Astha Sharma, Mandeep, Vinayak, Ms. Anjali Sharma, Ms. Praveena Gautam, Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Ms. Sunita B. Rao, B.D. Sharma, N. Vyas, Ms. Deep Shikha Bharati, Ved P. Arya, S.C. Verma, Krishna Sharma, Riku Sharma, Mohan Prasad Gupta, Ms. Sunita Sharma, M. Khairati, Vikas Malhotra, V.G. Pragasam, S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Ramasubramanian, Samir Ali Khan, Ranjan Mukherjee, S.C. Ghosh, S. Bhowmick, R.P. Yadav, Anil Shrivastav, Rituraj Biswas (for Gopa Singh), K. Enatoli Sema, Amit Kr. Singh, Pragyan Pradip Sharma, Heshu Kayina, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Kh. Nobin Singh, Mukesh Verma (for Yash Pal Dingra), B.S. Banthia, V.K. Verma, Nikhil Nayyar, R. Ayyam Perumal, Pradeep Misra, P.V. Yogeshwaran, B.S. Banthia, Dharam Bir Raj Vohra, Abhijit Sengupta, Kuldip Singh, V.N. Raghupathy, P.V. Dinesh, Ashok E. Srivastava, C.D. Singh, Anuvrat Sharma, Punit Dutt Tyagi, Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, Sanjay R. Hegde, Mukesh K. Giri , Shibashish Misra, Arun K. Sinha, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, T.V. Ratnam, Ms. Sumita Hazarika, Mohan Prasad Meharia, Aruneshwar Gupta, K.R. Sasiprabhu, Naresh K. Sharma, Ajay Pal, Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Ms. C.K. Suchirita, Advocates.

Judgment :

K.S. Radhakrishnan, J.

1. We have passed a detailed order on 9.7.2013 expressing the apprehension as to whether the Committees constituted, following our earlier order dated 23.8.2012, are effectively functioning and whether proper steps are being taken for proper implementation of the provisions of the various legislations which have been passed, with regard to the transportation of animals, maintaining of slaughter houses effluent and solid waste disposal etc.

2. Vide our order dated 9.7.2013, we had directed all the State Governments/Union Territories to file their action taken reports within one month. Few of the States have filed the action taken reports detailing the functioning of the Committees constituted. We also directed the MoEF to finalize the guidelines for the effective and proper functioning of the State Committees for overseeing the functioning of the slaughter houses. In obedience to our direction, the MoEF, on 27.8.2013, filed a compliance report enclosing the broad framework to be followed by the State Committees for effective supervision of the slaughter houses and also with regard to the transportation of animals, loading and unloading, effluent di

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2013 Supreme(SC) 794

K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSELaxmi Narain Modi – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE
Laxmi Narain Modi – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent