Srinagar: Organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami and separatist Hurriyat Conference today reacted angrily to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court's directive to ban beef while the Bar Association said it will move court against it.

Hardline Hurriyat Conference and JKLF also gave a call for a shutdown in Kashmir on Saturday. A division bench of the High Court had on Tuesday directed the police to see that there is no sale of beef anywhere in the state after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against cow slaughter.