HC bench further asked the corporation to give permission for slaughtering animals in housing societies, but with a rider that approval should not be granted if the housing society is located within one kilometre distance from a community space for slaughtering, including a religious slaughtering space.

According to a report in The Times of India, "In our view, the requirements of public safety, hygiene and sanitation makes it impossible to accept any policy that permits slaughtering inside individual flats. In a city that is as densely crowded and congested as Mumbai and where typical residential apartments are small, we do not believe it is possible to make effective arrangements for human, hygienic and safe methods of sacrificial slaughter within a residential flat. Many of these flats are homes for the very old or the very young (or both). We believe these concerns override all others," said the judges.