Mumbai, February 12: The Uttar Pradesh STF (Particular Activity Power) on Monday, February 12, arrested 4 workplace bearers of Halal Council of India (Mumbai), together with its president, common secretary and treasurer for allegedly extorting cash within the title of halal certification. The accused individuals have been recognized as Maulana Mudassir, Habib Yusuf Patel, Md Anwar Khan and Mohammed Tahir.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities had in November final yr banned “manufacture, sale, storage, and distribution of halal-certified merchandise” within the state. Following the ban, a case was registered in Lucknow towards some organisations, manufacturing firms, their homeowners and managers in addition to different unidentified individuals concerned in unnecessarily extorting cash within the title of halal certification, selling enmity within the title of faith and likewise funding completely different anti-national, separatist and terror outfits.
Earlier immediately, the apex court docket prolonged interim safety from coercive motion to Halal India and Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra workplace bearers. The highest court docket had final month granted safety from any coercive motion towards Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Halal Belief chief Mahmood Madani and different office-bearers.
Halal Ban Notification Challenged In Supreme Court docket:
The notification of the ban and the FIR have been challenged within the Supreme Court docket. Earlier in January, the highest court docket had issued discover to the Uttar Pradesh authorities on two pleas by Halal India Personal Restricted and Jamiat Ulam e-Hind Halal Belief Maharashtra searching for quashing of the notification.
The petition said that notification is “arbitrary and primarily based on unreasonable classification”, and that manufacture, sale, storage and distribution of halal-certified merchandise had been banned with speedy impact in Uttar Pradesh from the view of “public well being”.
“The notification is manifestly arbitrary because it capriciously excludes solely halal certification whereas different certifications corresponding to Jain, Satvik and even kosher haven’t been included throughout the purview of the stated notification, indicating that it arbitrarily singles out one certification primarily based on faith which is an impermissible classification,” the petition stated. (With company inputs)
