Kolkata, May 20 -- Muslim clerics across West Bengal have advised the community against offering cows for qurbani on Eid-al-Adha. The development comes days after the state home department, headed by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, issued a notification on May 13 citing the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950 and an August 2018 order by Calcutta high court on a petition seeking a ban on such slaughters in public places. The notification, a copy of which was seen by HT, said, no person shall slaughter bulls, bullocks, cows, calves, male and female buffalos, buffalo calves and castrated buffalos without obtaining written certificates jointly issued by municipality chairpersons or panchayat sabhathipatis and government veterinary surgeons stating "that the animal is fit for slaughter." "I appeal to my Muslim brothers not to offer cows. In fact, they should stop eating beef altogether," said Maulana Shafique Qasmi, imam of Nakhoda Masjid. A similar appeal was issued by Furfura Sharif cleric Pirzada Jiaudin Siddiqui. tanmay chatterjee...