Team Herald
PANJIM: Goa Meat Complex Limited (GMCL) has informed the High Court of Bombay at Goa that the abattoir, which was shut down is now functional after renovation and modernisation.
GMCL Managing Director Uday Tarkar had filed a compliance report before the Court on August 24 stating that “the work of modernisation and renovation for which a shutdown of the abattoir had been initiated since May 2015 was completed in March 2016.”
The Division Bench comprising Justice F M Reis and Justice K L Vadhane had directed the State government and GMCL to make the abattoir functional before September 30, 2016 and file the compliance report.
The directions were issued on a petition filed by Govansh Raksha Abhiyan, a NGO working for the protection of cows in the State.
“The requisite permission as required in law as well as keeping with the directions issued by the Supreme Court in relation to the functioning and operations of Goa Meat Complex have been adhered to and obtained,” the report stated.
The report states, “Slaughtering of animals in the abattoir is taking place in accordance with the law, including the provision of the Slaughter House Rules 2001, the Prevention of Cruelty Toward Animals Act 1980, the Goa Daman and Diu Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1978, the Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995 and various rules framed thereafter.”
Tarkar said only animals for which requisite certificates are obtained from the competent authority and the veterinary doctor under the provisions of Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995 and the Slaughter House Rules, 2001 are slaughtered at the abattoir.
