Respectful butchers?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/09/2015

A two-para report in TOI's Mumbai edition (19/09) titled `Slaughter ban passes quietly in Lucknow' says: ``Lucknow's butchers quietly respected the Jain festival called Paryushan...though a few shops tried to open in the morning, Lucknow Municipal Corporation was vigilant enough to stop them. LMC officials say it was imposed every year and there was never a problem like in Maharashtra where the issue went o the HC and SC.'' The report fails to mention the root cause of the furore in Maharashtra: an extension of the ban from two to four days in Mumbai and two to eight days in its suburb of Mira-Bhayander.

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