Halal syndicate making items costlier

1. Solicitor General  of India Tushar Mehta on Monday raised in the Supreme Court the issue of #halal certification of non-meat products such as iron bars and cement, asking why should non-believers be made to pay?

2. Higher cost for halal-certified products.
The law officer made the submissions before the apex court which was hearing the pleas challenging a notification prohibiting the manufacturing, storage, sale  and distribution of food products with halal certification

3. within UP, except for items produced for export.
"So far as  halal meat is concerned, nobody can have any objection. 
But your lordships would be shocked, as I was shocked, that even cement and iron bars used are to be halal certified"

4. He said the halal-certifying agencies were charging and the total amount collected in the process might be a few lakh crore.
"Even 'atta' (wheat flour) and 'besan' (gram flour) has to be halal-certified.
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