INDIA SUMMARIZED

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 th...