India’s Supreme Court has struck down the state government’s decision to display the names of owners and employees prominently outside shops for shopkeepers in Uttar Pradesh during the Kannur Yatra, declaring it illegal. The Supreme Court has also issued notices to 3 states in this regard.
In the interim ruling, the Supreme Court said that shopkeepers in Uttar Pradesh should keep their usual items at their shops along the Kannur Yatra route and to do so they need to post their names outside the shop. no.
The Supreme Court has issued this decision in response to the petitions. The petitioners were of the view that the purpose of such orders is to isolate people from each other on the basis of identity.
The Supreme Court said that the shopkeepers on the Kannur Yatra routes will prominently display the food items they normally serve instead of their names.