New Delhi:After few days when Rajasthan High Court recommended that Cow should be declared as the national animal of India, a Hyderabad high court judge on Friday called the cow a “substitute to Mother and God”. 
Announcing this order, Justice Rao said that, “Whether a person is entitled to claim interim custody of cows and bulls seized from him when he was allegedly taking them to a slaughter house? This question needs to be posed and answered in view of the national importance of cows which are substitutes to Mother and God”.

While dismissing the petition of a cattle trader from whom 63 cows and two bulls were captured; Justice B Siva SankaraRao made the statement.
He also directed that those doctors who drive healthy cows to slaughter houses by fraudulently should be brought under the penal net of the AP Cow Slaughter Act, 1977 and offences under it should be made non-bailabe and cognizable.