India: After the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation seized non-vegetarian stalls last month and announced to disallow them along public roads and in the 100-meter radius of schools, colleges and religious places, 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.
Advocate Ronith Joy, representing the vendors, said that non-vegetarian food was being sold in Gujarat for centuries and the Constitution did not ban its sale in the state.
.On Thursday, the court told the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation that it cannot impinge on people’s food choices, Bar and Bench reported.
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.”
