During the hearing of the pleas challenging Uttar Pradesh government’s ban on halal-certified products, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged before the Supreme Court today that halal-certified products are costlier and the Court may have to consider the issue of people all across the country having to buy costlier halal-certified products just because they are demanded by a few.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and AG Masih heard the matter and posted it for hearing in the week commencing March 24, noting that the petitioners already stand protected from coercive action by virtue of the Court’s earlier order(s). Asking the respondent-Union to serve copies of its affidavit on the…