prayagraj the allahabad high court on wednesday issued notices to the centre and up government seeking their reply on alleged illegal operations of meat shops and slaughterhouses in ghaziabad notices have also been served on the food safety and standards authority of india fssai animal welfare board of india commissioner of food safety up ghaziabad municipal corporation up pollution control board uppcb and the central pollution control board cpcbhearing a pil filed by ghaziabad councillor himanshu mittal a division bench comprising chief justice pritinker diwaker and justice saumitra dayal singh directed the abovementioned respondents to file their respective replies by may 3 2023the pil has raised statewide noncompliance of the food safety and standards act 2006 prevention of cruelty to animals act 1960 environment protection act 1986 and moefcc guidelines and various apex court ordersappearing for the petitioner his counsel akash vashishtha submitted before the court that in ghaziabad out of nearly 3000 meat shops and slaughterhouses only 17 have licences under section 31 of the food safety and standards act 2006 only 215 meat establishments are registered with the food safety department under the act and only 62 improvement notices have been served upon them the plea saysnone of the meat shops and slaughterhouses in the district has mandatory consent to establish and operate under section 25 of the water act alleged the petitioner in his pil the petitioners counsel further submitted that the perpetual cruelty to animals is being caused in violation of laws in the laxmi narain modi matter the supreme court constituted a committee on slaughterhouses for each state such committees are completely defunct across the state the society for prevention of cruelty to animals to be constituted in each district is either nonexistent or defunct in most of the districts added counsel for the petitioner