{"id":118593,"date":"2026-07-02T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/tamil-nadu-govt-moves-sc-against-madras-hc-order-banning-cow-slaughter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:36:57","slug":"tamil-nadu-govt-moves-sc-against-madras-hc-order-banning-cow-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/tamil-nadu-govt-moves-sc-against-madras-hc-order-banning-cow-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu govt moves SC against Madras HC order banning cow slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court&#8217;s sweeping ban on cow and calf slaughter. The state argues the High Court&#8217;s order, based on a 1976 ruling, contradicts the Tamil Nadu Animal Preservation Act, 1958. This Act permits the slaughter of older, unfit cows under specific conditions, a provision the state contends was ignored by the blanket prohibition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court&#8217;s sweeping ban on cow and calf slaughter. The state argues the High Court&#8217;s order, based on a 1976 ruling, contradicts the Tamil Nadu Animal Preservation Act, 1958. This Act permits the slaughter of older, unfit cows under specific conditions, a provision the state&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/tamil-nadu-govt-moves-sc-against-madras-hc-order-banning-cow-slaughter\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tamil Nadu govt moves SC against Madras HC order banning cow slaughter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}