NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Monday stayed Uttar Pradesh authorities’s directive ordering all shopkeepers and eatery house owners to show their names and different particulars in areas the place the Kanwar Yatra is organized.
In an interim order, the high courtroom has dominated that Uttar Pradesh police can not compel shopkeepers to show their names. As an alternative, they will solely require the show of meals objects.
“Don’t pressure the house owners of eateries alongside the Kanwar Yatra path to show their names outdoors retailers,” the apex courtroom stated.
A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatt was listening to petitions filed in opposition to the stated directive. One in all these was filed by TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
The highest courtroom has additionally issued discover to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi looking for their response on a batch of petitions alleging that state authorities’s resolution are violative of constitutional provision and in opposition to secularism.
On July 20, the Uttar Pradesh authorities issued directives for meals retailers on the Kanwar path to show the house owners’ names. The directive was attacked by opposition events within the state which, have cited discrimination on the premise of faith.
The Supreme Court docket has sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh authorities relating to the directive and has scheduled the subsequent listening to for July 26.
In an interim order, the high courtroom has dominated that Uttar Pradesh police can not compel shopkeepers to show their names. As an alternative, they will solely require the show of meals objects.
“Don’t pressure the house owners of eateries alongside the Kanwar Yatra path to show their names outdoors retailers,” the apex courtroom stated.
A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatt was listening to petitions filed in opposition to the stated directive. One in all these was filed by TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
The highest courtroom has additionally issued discover to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi looking for their response on a batch of petitions alleging that state authorities’s resolution are violative of constitutional provision and in opposition to secularism.
On July 20, the Uttar Pradesh authorities issued directives for meals retailers on the Kanwar path to show the house owners’ names. The directive was attacked by opposition events within the state which, have cited discrimination on the premise of faith.
The Supreme Court docket has sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh authorities relating to the directive and has scheduled the subsequent listening to for July 26.
