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You cannot stop people from eating non-vegetarian food, Gujarat HC tells Ahmedabad civic body

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The court was hearing a petition against the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had seized several vendors’ carts selling meat and egg dishes last month.

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday told the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation that it could not stop the residents of the state from eating non-vegetarian food, Bar and Bench reported.

Justice Biren Vaishnav made the statement while hearing a plea by vendors whose carts were seized from the main roads by the Ahmedabad civic body last month.

The municipal corporation’s town planning committee had specifically mentioned that stalls selling non-vegetarian items will not be allowed along public roads and in the 100-meter radius of schools, colleges and religious places. A similar decision was also taken by municipal bodies of Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Rajkot cities.

On Thursday, the court told the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation that it cannot impinge on people’s food choices, Bar and Bench reported.

“What seems to be the problem?” Vaishnav asked. “You don’t like non-veg food, that is your outlook. How can you decide what I should eat outside? Tomorrow they will tell me I should not drink sugarcane juice because it will cause diabetes! Or coffee is bad for health.”

The petitioners told the court that municipal corporation officials ransacked the area where the vendors were selling foods and even impounded the carts in an “inhuman manner”, Live Law reported.

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