Directing the dhaba and restaurant owners along the Kanwar routes, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered compliance with the Uttar Pradesh government’s directive to display registration details and licences.
“At this stage, all the respective hotel owners shall comply with the mandate of license and registration certificate as required statutorily. We make it clear that we’re not going into the issues being argued. The application stands closed”, news agency ANI quoted the top court as saying.
On July 15, the Supreme Court had issued a notice to the state governments of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand seeking their responses to a plea challenging the mandate that requires shopkeepers along the Kanwar Yatra route to display QR codes, which could be scanned to reveal the names of the owners.
The UP government had issued an order earlier this year, mandating eateries to display QR codes containing information on the shop owners. Subsequently, the Uttarakhand government also followed with a similar order.
