Sikhs win lawsuit against meat plant near gurdwara in UK
Friday, 11/04/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140411/punjab.htm#22
London : A community of British Sikhs has won a legal battle to stop the construction of a meat processing plant next to their Gurdwara in Bradford city. The community and worshippers at the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara on Leeds Road said they felt offended by the expansion bid by supermarket chain Pakeezah. They told planners that hearing carcasses being cut up would upset worshippers at prayer as many Sikhs are strict vegetarians.
But despite their protests, a planning panel at Bradford Council granted the food company permission to convert a car workshop in nearby Percival Street into a wholesale meat plant in August last year. Worshippers then challenged the matter in the High Court and the Council yesterday said it had decided not to defend its decision meaning Pakeezah's planning permission is now void.
