Indian town bans meat sales

Indian town bans meat sales

NEW DELHI (Reuters): The sale of meat has been banned in a
northern Indian town to encourage vegetarianism among its 150,000
inhabitants, a local official said on Tuesday.

"The municipal corporation imposed a ban on selling meat in
the town to promote vegetarianism and spirituality among the
masses," said Khuban Devi, chairwoman of the Municipal
Corporation of Palwal. "All the meat shops in the town are
closed."

Meat traders in Palwal, about 70 kilometers south of New
Delhi, have reacted angrily to the ban and have filed a petition
in the local court to quash it.

"The ban is completely wrong and false. You cannot take away
the employment of hundreds of people just like that," said Suresh
Chutani, a local councillor and a representative of the town's
hotel federation.