Taking a serious view of alleged slaughtering of cows and selling of beef in a village near Roorkee, the Uttarakhand High Court today asked Haridwar police to explain under which law the bovines were being butchered. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari sought the explanation while summoning the Haridwar senior superintendent of police to respond to the allegations in a public interest litigation.

The bench asked the SSP to be personally present before it on August 10, the next date of hearing. The bench was hearing a petition which alleged that cows were being slaughtered and the beef sold at Solapur Gadha village near Roorkee. The plea said some of the village natives had obtained permits in 2014-2015 to slaughter cows and sell beef in 2014-2015.