Lucknow, India — An Indian restaurant has resumed sales of the beef kebabs it has been making for more than a century, two months after being forced to take the famous dish off the menu under pressure from Hindu hardliners. Tundey Kebabi in Uttar Pradesh was unable to source the meat for its best-loved dish for two months after the appointment of a Hindu nationalist politician as leader of the northern state. Yogi Adityanath took office in March, promising tougher penalties for abattoirs operating without a licence and for slaughting cows, which Hindus regard as sacred. A resulting police crackdown led to the state’s meat-producing industry grinding to a virtual halt — even though most businesses were producing beef using buffalo rather than cow meat. For two months, Tundey Kebabi was forced to use chicken or goat meat — to the horror of its loyal customers. But last week a court ordered the government to resume issuing the licences abattoir require to operate legally, breaking the ...
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