C.W.P. No.17881 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.17881 of 2011 Date of Decision.22.09.2011 Jwala Meat Shop through its proprietor Jwala Ram son of Shri Rulda Ram, resident of village Saranga, Hisar Road, Ambala City, District Ambala and others .....Petitioners Versus State of Haryana through Chief Secretary, Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh and others .....Respondents Present: Mr. S.S. Dinarpur, Advocate for the petitioners. CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? Yes 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Yes -.- K. KANNAN J.(ORAL) 1. The writ petition is for quashing of an order dated 13.07.2011 issued by the Director, Urban Local Bodies to Commissioners of all Municipal Corporations, Deputy Commissioners as well as Executive Officers, Secretaries of all Municipal Councils/Municipal Committees of Haryana that in view of Jain Samaj Utsav, which was proposed to be held from 25.08.2011 to 02.09.2011, there shall be closure of slaughter houses and ban imposed on slaughtering of any type of animal during the aforesaid festival period. The period mentioned through the notice, which is impugned in the writ petition, has already expired. The writ petition contains a specific prayer that the notice issued under Annexure P-3 must be quashed. He also seeks for quashing of notice, which was issued on 25.08.2011, which like Annexure P-3, refers to the fact that C.W.P. No.17881 of 2011 -2- meat shops would remain closed from 25.08.2011 to 02.09.2011. Since the period mentioned in the notices and the prayer sought through the writ petition have already expired, it is not possible for me to consider the request of the petitioner for quashing of the proceedings, which had a limited period of operation. 2. The issue relating to a direction for closure of meet shop during Jain Samaj Festival is no longer res integra. This has already been dealt with by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Hinsa Virodhak Sangh Vs. Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jannat (2008) 3 SCC 33 where the Hon'ble Supreme Court has held that in multi-cultural pluralistic society like India, it is necessary to keep a tolerance level high for keeping unity and the freedom of trade that the meet owners enjoy under Article 19 (1)(g) or the freedom that the members of public have to consume, non vegetarian food could not be said to be violated seriously by a brief period of ban. 3. The writ petition is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE September 22, 2011 Pankaj*