Dehradun, Aug. 30 -- Nainital High Court today lifted the ban on animal sacrifice in Nanda Devi festival, an annual major religious feature in Kumaon region of the state.
The High Court, however, directed that the animal sacrifice must not happen in open but within closed doors.
Delivering its judgment on a Public Interest litigation by the festival organisers, the high court allowed the animal sacrifice to honour the religious spirit tradition of the people.
The court, however, granted the permission subject to the condition that animal sacrifice will take place inside a slaughterhouse to be built by the local administration in Almora during the festival.
Hearing the PIL a division bench of Chief Justice G Narendra and Justice Subhash ...