CHENNAI: In a significant win for animal slaughter activists, the Madras high court on Thursday banned camel slaughter in Tamil Nadu.The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice R Mahadevan banned the practice on a PIL filed by anti-slaughter activists to prevent public slaughter of camel brought to Tamil Nadu from far-flung states."We are thus of the view that the matter should be set down for final hearing. But in the meantime, in view of the stand of the central government and the provisions of the central Act, including Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at present we cannot have a situation where such camel slaughtering is permitted, especially in the absence of any facility for it," the bench said.It then posted the matter to October 17 for further hearing.