UP U-turn after backlash on Kanwar Yatra diktat

FOLLOWING outrage over Uttar Pradesh police order asking eateries and shops along the Kanwar Yatra route to display the names of their owners, Muzaffarnagar district police on Thursday issued a revised order leaving it to the "free will" of eatery owners and shopkeepers.

- NAMITA BAJPAI

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav had urged the courts to take suo motu cognisance of the Muzaffarnagar police order calling it a "social crime." The SP chief had also urged the courts to "take appropriate punitive action." Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi said the order should be withdrawn as it may cause communal tension and there should not be any discrimination on the basis of religion or caste.