Government to challenge HC order allowing storing, eating beef from outside state

MUMBAI: The state government has decided to take the beef ban fight to the Supreme Court by challenging the Bombay high court’s order allowing people to store and consume beef brought from outside the state. The apex court late last week served a notice to the state government on the beef ban. The decision was challenged in the high court, which on May 6 this year upheld the beef ban under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act. “We will challenge the high court’s decision because the relaxation provided by the court defeats the purpose of ban — protection of cow and its progeny,” said a senior official, on condition of anonymity.