High Court on Saturday constituted a three-member bench to address the beef ban issue that had vitiated the situation in the state.
The Registrar General issued a notification and constituted “full bench” comprising, Justice Ali Mohammad Magray, Justice Tashi Rabstan and Justice Muzuffar Attar.
The decision has been taken following a Supreme Court order asking the chief justice to set up the bench at Srinagar to decide on the two “conflicting” orders on Dogra-era been ban.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
A bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and Amitava Roy said that in view of the “conflicting” orders by the two high court benches, the chief justice shall constitute a larger bench to examine all contentions.
J&K High Court had already granted three weeks time to the state government to file its response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged the cow slaughter Act in the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC).