{"id":2146,"date":"2002-07-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/07\/07\/2002-07-07-bihar-and-jharkhand-temples-ban-animal-sacrifice\/"},"modified":"2002-07-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-07T12:00:00","slug":"2002-07-07-bihar-and-jharkhand-temples-ban-animal-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/07\/07\/2002-07-07-bihar-and-jharkhand-temples-ban-animal-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar and Jharkhand Temples Ban Animal Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2002\/jul\/04bihar1.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BIHAR, INDIA, JULY 4, 2002: Last month a group of Hindu activists from Bihar launched a campaign against animal sacrifice at the famous Lord Baidyanath temple at Deogarh in Jharkhand. It is estimated that about 100 animals are slaughtered at the Deogarh temple each month and the temple management spends about US$2,000 procuring goats for the sacrifices. Following a note sent Monday to the governor from Vice-Chancellor of Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University, Acharya Kishore Kunal, Mithilesh Kumar, Principal Secretary to Pande, sent a letter to the chief secretaries of the two states, saying sacrifice of animals was punishable under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, Raj Bhavan. Kumar, on behalf the governor, has urged the chief secretaries to find out if animal sacrifice is still going on in some temples and if so, steps be taken to stop it. Nothing is said in this report as to why the ban applies only to animals killed in temples and not to all killing.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BIHAR, INDIA, JULY 4, 2002: Last month a group of Hindu activists from Bihar launched a campaign,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}