Beef Ban only on paper for past 70 yrs

The ban on beef, which is turning into a controversy in the state, has been in law books and on paper in the post-Independence era. The issue did not come to the fore in the past nearly seven decades. The Valley which has a majority Muslim population has been consuming beef since the Muslim rulers took over 600 years ago. Historians believe that Srinagar had established beef markets, which later spread out to rural areas of the Valley. With the advent of the Sikh rule followed by the Dogra rule…

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