Mangalaru : Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi on Sunday said funds generated from cow slaughter in illegal slaughter houses were funding insurgency and terrorism.
“According to a police report in Uttar Pradesh, which has 11,000 illegal slaughter houses, the money is going towards insurgency, guns and terrorism,” she said, in response to a media query on cow slaughter.
The Union minister was in Kukke Subramanya on April 5, 100km from here, to offer special puja to the deity.
The minister alleged that a mafia runs slaughter houses. “Take the case of Deonar slaughter house in Mumbai. They gave an undertaking in the high court that they would not export meat, which is for consumption in India. But 90% of the meat is exported. There have been hundreds of cases of stabbing and murder there. Anybody who tries to check what is actually being killed there is threatened,” she alleged. Deonar abattoir, located in the eastern suburb of Mumbai, is the largest in Asia.
She alleged that in India, 90% of the big slaughter houses are owned by foreigners who pay no taxes, water and power bills. “They flout every law, and are supposed to kill cattle above 16 years old. But for years they have been killing calves,” she alleged.
Cattle population figures are like tiger figures, quoted without a survey, she said. “At one point of time, the government put the tiger numbers at 25,000. A real survey put it at just 800. It is likewise for cattle too.”
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