SC directs all hotel owners along Kanwar Yatra route to display licences

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to examine the legality of the directives issued by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments requiring eateries along the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage route to display quick response codes with their owners’ identities, Live Law reported.

A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and NK Singh disposed of the interlocutory applications filed against the directives. It reiterated that the eateries must display their licences and registration certificates as required by law.

“We are told that today is the last day of the yatra,” Live Law quoted the bench as saying on Tuesday. “In any case it is likely to come to an end in the near future. Therefore, at this stage, we would only pass an order that all the respective hotel owners shall comply with the mandate of displaying the licence and the registration certificate as per the statutory requirements.”