Kanwar Yatra: Supreme Court to hear plea challenging UP’s directive mandating display of QR codes; petition says rule violates privacy | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is all set to look at a petition on July 15 that contests the Uttar Pradesh administration’s order requiring QR code shows at institutions alongside the ‘kanwar’ path, which disclose proprietors’ identities.Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh will contemplate the general public curiosity litigation submitted by tutorial Apoorvanand Jha and fellow petitioners, PTI repoorted.Previously, the very best courtroom had suspended comparable orders from BJP-governed states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh that required eateries on Kanwar Yatra routes to present proprietor names and extra info.Jha referenced a UP administration press launch dated June 25, stating, “The new measures mandate the display of QR codes on all eateries along the Kanwar route, which reveal the names and identities of the owners, thereby achieving the same discriminatory profiling that was previously stayed by this court.”The authorized problem asserts that the UP authorities’s requirement for institution house owners to disclose spiritual and caste identities underneath “lawful license requirements” violates store, dhaba, and restaurant proprietors’ privacy rights.During the Hindu month of ‘Shravan’, quite a few devotees journey from completely different places carrying ‘kanwars’ with Ganga water to carry out ‘jalabhishek’ of Shivlings.The sacred interval sees many followers abstaining from meat consumption, while some moreover keep away from meals containing onions and garlic.