'It should not be forcibly given a communal color', plea in a petition filed in the Supreme Court in support of the nameplate
Nameplate case in SC: The Supreme Court had stayed the Yogi government's decision to put nameplates in front of shops. Meanwhile, this matter has once again reached the Supreme Court. Now a petition has been filed in the court in its support. The court had issued notices to the governments of Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh along with UP on a similar order.
It was in the context of the Kanwar Yatra in UP that the Supreme Court had upheld the Yogi government's decision to put nameplates in front of shopkeepers. The matter has once again reached the Supreme Court now. However, now a petition has been filed in support in the court.
Notably, the Supreme Court had recently issued notices to Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh governments too, apart from UP, on a similar order. It had also put an interim stay on all orders.
Actually, supporting the directive of the Senior Superintendent of Police of Muzaffarnagar, one petitioner further said that there is a demand to forcibly make this matter communal in color; I should also be made a party in this case.
Petitioner Surjit Singh Yadav (Nameplate case in SC) said that this order was given to maintain the convenience, faith, and law and order of Shiva devotees. He said that it has been unnecessarily given a communal color.
The Senior Superintendent of Police had asked the shop owners to display their names outside the shops during the Kanwar Yatra.
It is noteworthy that on Monday, the Supreme Court had put an interim stay on the instructions issued by the officials of three state governments that eateries located on the Kanwar Yatra route should display the names of the owners outside such shops.
This instruction was reportedly implemented in many districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and similar instructions were also issued in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
