NANITAL: Democracy means the protection of minorities, the Uttarakhand high court said on Friday while hearing two petitions against a meat ban in Haridwar.
A civilisation, the division bench added, is judged only by how it treats its minorities and a ban like the one in Haridwar calls into question the extent to which the state can determine a citizen’s choices.
“The issue is whether a citizen has the right to decide his own diet or will that be decided by the state,” Chief Justice RS Chauhan said. “If we say that it will be decided by the state because the state is permitted to impose a total ban on a particular type of non-veg food. then can that power be extended to include meat of all sorts?”
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