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SC slams the brakes on BJP’s name display order
Updated On: 23 July, 2024 09:45 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Interim stay on UP and Uttarakhand’s controversial directives targeting eatery owners amid opposition outcry
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Kanwariyas walk past a shop on which banners with shopkeeper’s name was put up on Kanwar Marg. Pic/PTI
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered an interim stay on the directives issued by BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand asking eatery owners along the Kanwar Yatra routes to display the names of their owners, the staff and other details, a move the opposition has claimed is intended to promote religious discrimination.
Issuing notice to the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, where the Ujjain municipal body has issued a similar directive, a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti, however, said eateries may be required to display the kind of food they are serving like they are vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
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