New Delhi: With 22 states and six Union Territories having enacted Legislations to ban or restrict cow slaughter, government is examining the issue of imposing the ban throughout the country, Lok Sabha was informed on March 3.

Replying to a question about the steps government proposed to take to completely ban cow slaughter throughout the country, Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh said the matter was in the state list.

"Even then the Government of India is examining the issue," he said.

Singh said there was "no evidence" however that slaughter of cow and its illegal transportation was on the rise.

PTI