Supreme Court extends stay on directives for eateries on Kanwar Yatra route till August 5
The bench clarified that it had not barred any eatery owner from voluntarily displaying their name outside the establishment.
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The Supreme Court on Friday extended till August 5 its stay on directives by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments requiring eateries along the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage route to display their owners’ names outside the establishments, reported Live Law.
This year’s Kanwar Yatra started on Monday and will conclude on August 6.
The annual pilgrimage is attended by devotees called Kanwariyas, who walk hundreds of kilometres to collect water from the Ganga near Haridwar and carry it back to their home states to offer at temples. They mainly come from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh.
On Friday, the court heard pilgrims who supported the Uttar Pradesh government’s directive. The Kanwariyas said that the eateries on their pilgrimage route did not necessarily serve “pure vegetarian” food.
“There are shops with names like Saraswati Dhaba, Ma Durga Dhaba,” one Kanwariya told the court. “We assume it is pure vegetarian. When we enter the shop, the owners and the employees are different, and non-vegetarian food items are served there. It is against my custom and usages.”
The Supreme Court clarified that it had not barred any eatery owner from voluntarily displaying their name outside the establishment.
On Monday, the court had issued an interim stay on the state governments’ directives till Friday. The bench of Justices Hrishikesh...
