Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) banned animal slaughter and the sale of meat on the occasion of Ram Navami on April 10. "There will be a blanket ban on the slaughterhouses, animal slaughter and the sale of meat on Ram Navami," reads the Bengaluru civic body order. Meanwhile, a relatively less crowd was observed in the city's wet markets on Saturday.

The meat shop owners and meat traders in Bengaluru's Cox Town market said they will abide by the BBMP order. "We will follow government orders and not conduct business tomorrow. Tomorrow is a holiday," Md Zamrud, a mutton retailer from Cox Town told ANI.