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.