Bengaluru, July 2 -- The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)-led Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court order that directed the southern state to impose a complete ban on cow slaughter. In its petition filed on June 9, the government argued that the high court's direction effectively rewrites the law by imposing a blanket prohibition that does not exist under any of the state's existing laws. The government further said the high court wrongly relied on a 1976 Government Order directing a ban on cow slaughter in all slaughterhouses in Tamil Nadu, that was issued on the premise that if would improve milk production and strengthen the rural economy. The plea, still pending for hearing before the Supreme Co...