Ahmedabad, 21 February, 2012

Sunni Muslim Ehle Qureshi jamaat of Jamnagar has taken a unanimous decision of not to slaughter cows now onwards. This decision was announced in community wedding function in presence of district police chief Shri Subhash Trivedi.

According to an estimate, the city of Jamnagar has about 200 houses of butcher community, while the district has 150 more houses that belong to butchers.

Leaders of community yesterday evening gathered at Pir Godarsha vali mazar and took the pledge for not to butcher cows now onwards. Butchers of Bhanwad, Khambhalia, Kalavad, Lalpur talukas of Jamnagar district supported this decision.

As per the announcement made by Jamnagar Kasai Jamaat, the community members will prevent cow slaughtering. If any person is caught slaughtering cow, he would be boycotted by community members and will be handed over to police.

District police chief Subhash Trivedi welcomed such decision of Kasai community and garlanded the leaders of jamaat. He gifted silver pen to one Afzal Kadar Sherji, son of Kasai who passed Chartered Accountant(CA) exam.