Mathura: Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan has demanded that the Centre should enact an effective law to check cow slaughter and prevent people from making 'irresponsible statements' on the issue of beef and bovines.

Khan, in a letter to Shankaracharya of Govardhan Peeth Swami Adhokshjanand Maharaj yesterday, thanked him for gifting a cow for his diary and urged him to "talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding a law to check cow slaughter".