PRAYAGRAJ: Varanasi Municipal Corporation‘s directive to close meat shops along kanwar yatra routes during Shrawan month has been challenged in Allahabad high court by National Loktantrik Party chief Mohammad Suhail.
“The directive to close shops selling non-vegetarian items (along Kanwar yatra routes) violates the shop owners’ fundamental right to continue their trade or business.Why only the meat shops were chosen to be shut?” Suhail argued in the PIL filed on Wednesday and sought an urgent hearing.
He claimed that kanwar yatra is an age-old practice during which meat shops have always remained open. Therefore, the authorities, by passing such directives, are trying to create an exclusion by identity, he said.
“The directive to close shops selling non-vegetarian items (along Kanwar yatra routes) violates the shop owners’ fundamental right to continue their trade or business.Why only the meat shops were chosen to be shut?” Suhail argued in the PIL filed on Wednesday and sought an urgent hearing.
He claimed that kanwar yatra is an age-old practice during which meat shops have always remained open. Therefore, the authorities, by passing such directives, are trying to create an exclusion by identity, he said.
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