Katju in trouble over cow remark

The Jalandhar police in Punjab is looking into the veracity of charges leveled by a local resident who has accused the former Supreme Court Judge and ex-chairman of the Press Council of India Justice Markendey Katju of “hurting religious sentiments.”

The complaint against Katju relates to his recent comment on beef eating an
d cow.

The complainant Raman Dutt has said that the comments made by Katju are an insult to the Hindu religion.

On October 3, media reports quoted Katju saying: “I eat beef and don’t consider cow as mother as it is just another animal...,”