New Delhi. The UP government directed to display all hotels and dhabas on the Kawad Yatra route outside the QR code. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court against this instruction. The Supreme Court has given great relief to the UP government while hearing on Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N. The bench of Kotishwar Singh refused to stop the instructions of the UP government regarding the QR code. The court said that all hotels and dhaba owners will have to display licenses and registration certificates on the Kanwar Yatra route.
The Supreme Court said that the issue of QR code has not been considered yet. The Supreme Court said that the main petition could be considered at the time of hearing. The UP government had asked to showcase the sticker of QR code at all the sites selling food on the Kandar Yatra route. At the same time, the UP government had asked all the shopkeepers on the Kanwar Yatra route to get the banner of their name and identity. In protest, the Petition was filed by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, Educationist Apoorwanand Jha, TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra and others. After hearing the petition, the Supreme Court had first sought a response from the UP and Uttarakhand governments.
The petitions filed against the instructions to display the QR code outside the hotels and dhabas on the Kavad Yatra route stated that it is discriminatory. Also, the instructions are indicated to those who take part in the Kandar Yatra, which shop to go to and to which to go. It was said in the petitions that the instructions related to the UP government’s QR code also increase the possibility of communal violence against the shopkeepers of the minority community. Apart from this, the instructions of the UP government were also described as a violation of privacy. Earlier in 2024, petitions were filed against similar instructions in the Supreme Court. The court then stayed the instructions of UP, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh governments.
