Meat Merchandisers of Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar had to shut their booths so as to not “ hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus ” during the Kanwar Yatra passage ritual. It’s also understood that the quarter administration has covered the shops with black clothes.
As numerous as 114 Muslims were originally called for ‘ peace addresses ’ and also latterly detained under Section 151( forestallment of commission of cognisable offences) of the Code of Criminal Procedure( CrPC) at original police stationsnewsclick.in reported.
“ We were detained and transferred to jail for a day. When we asked the police officer for which crime we were being transferred to jail, he said our track record was bad. We were transferred to jail for a day grounded on bare dubitation that we might commit any crime which would disturb the peace of the megacity, ” a Muslim youth said to the news website.
While officers said the decision has been taken to” maintain peace between communities,” meat merchandisers called it an” attack on their livelihood,” according to the Indian Express.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said,” esteeming the belief of addicts, meat shouldn’t be allowed to be vended in the open on the Kanwar route. The route should remain clean and sanitised. There should be provision for streetlights. Since the rainfall is hot, arrangements for drinking water should also be made,” in a meeting with the state’s officers.
Kanwar Yatra started on July 4, 2023, and it’ll conclude on July 15, 2023.