Jun 20, 2025 06:51 PM IST Assam Cattle Preservation Act to be strictly carried out: Himanta Guwahati, The Assam Cattle Preservation Act will likely be strictly enforced in all districts of the state to stop availability and consumption of beef inside a 5 km radius of spiritual locations of worship, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Friday. Assam Cattle Preservation Act to be strictly carried out: Himanta ”The availability and consumption of beef through the latest Eid pageant regardless of the ban inside a 5 km radius of temples and different locations of worship is a really critical matter. In this regard, we are going to take strict motion below the Assam Cattle Preservation Act, 2021”, Sarma stated at a press convention right here. After the Eid Uz Zuha pageant this 12 months, it has been seen that in some areas of delicate districts like Dhubri, Goalpara and Hojai, a number of makes an attempt have been made to create disturbances by throwing physique elements, significantly skulls close to temples and prayer halls, he stated. Sarma stated that it has been noticed that these have occurred close to localities the place beef consumption throughout Eid is widespread and all are inside the restricted space of 5 km radius of locations of spiritual worship. ”This has been in clear violation of the Assam Cattle Preservation Act which clearly states that beef consumption or its sale and distribution is banned inside a radius of 5 km of spiritual locations of worship. The involved district administrations didn’t implement this provision strictly resulting in this example”, he stated. If folks had been made conscious of the 5 km restrictions, these incidents might have been averted, he added. ”I’ve directed all district commissioners to strictly implement the Act and make sure that slaughter, sale or consumption of beef is banned inside the restricted space”, he stated. In locations like Lakhimpur and Lakhipur in Goalpara district, it has been seen that these incidents have occurred in areas categorised as tribal belts and blocks of Village Grazing Reserve and Professional Grazing Reserve the place in lots of instances, folks have occupied the land illegally, Sarma stated. ”Even the chief of the opposition had stated within the meeting that immigrants who got here after a sure 12 months can not legally occupy or declare the land as their very own. I’ve directed district commissioners and extra district commissioners to conduct a survey in these areas to establish these folks whose households haven’t lived in Assam for at the very least three generations and put together an inventory of all these folks residing in tribal belt, block or in VGR/PGR, significantly within the delicate areas which can assist us to take obligatory authorized motion”, he stated. On Wednesday, seven individuals had been arrested following the alleged restoration of three cow skulls, roughly 30 metres from a ‘Namghar’ , in Lakhimpur district. Recently, shoot-at-sight orders at evening had been issued in Dhubri the place a day after the Bakrid, a cow’s head was present in entrance of the Hanuman Temple and once more the following day, one other cranium was discovered once more there together with incidents of stone pelting reported. On June 8, Sarma had stated that numerous cattle had been allegedly slaughtered illegally at a number of locations through the Bakrid pageant and elements of the meat had been thrown at a number of places throughout Assam. Police have up to now arrested over 60 folks with over 50 in Dhubri alone in reference to unlawful slaughter of cows with the intention of making communal disturbances within the state. This article was generated from an automatic information company feed with out modifications to textual content.
