The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Delhi government and others to file a response on a plea seeking a ban on illegal slaughter of poultry birds in the national capital including at the Ghazipur Murga Mandi.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked the Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board, Department of Animal Husbandry of the Delhi government, Delhi Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other authorities to file a response and listed the matter for April 24 as the next date of hearing.