Following the action by authorities, owners of the sealed meat and poultry fodder processing units are up in arms and have decided to approach the High Court.
Terming the crackdown unjustifiable as they have all the necessary no-objection certificates (NOCs), the owners have submitted a written complaint to the office of district magistrate.
"We will wait for the reply till Sunday and if we do not get any response then we’ll file our petition in the Allahabad High Court," said Ajay Tyagi, lawyer of the aggrieved group.
Raising objection on the way action was taken Tyagi said that the government should have first lodged a complaint or served a notice to the owners.
Former Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) MP Shahid Akhlaq whose three slaughterhouses were sealed accused the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of “targeting the minorities”.
SSP J Ravindra Gaur, however claimed that the action has been taken without any grudge.
"From where are the poultry fodder processing units getting their waste material when the slaughter houses of the Nagar Nigam are closed for the last four years,” Gaur said raising doubts on the working on such units which require waste from slaughter houses to survive.
The owners however claimed that they have all the required NOC`s and have set up the units on bank loans.
"We are all against illegal slaughtering and are law abiding citizens but we will surely safeguard our interests and will pursue the case in the court of law,” said Mohd Ayya, whose slaughterhouse has been sealed.