Somnath non-veg ban is back, Radhanpur’s gone: Gujarat HC tests limits of State power

India Today · Jumana Shah · 2026-11-06 12:26 UTC

While state authorities can control activity around pilgrimage centres, the court has indicated these powers aren’t sweeping

While state authorities can control activity around pilgrimage centres, the court has indicated these powers aren't sweeping

A prickly controversy of sale and storage of non-vegetarian food has come to the fore in Gujarat, with the high court testing the limits of the state’s interventions in people’s choice of business and way of life.

Interestingly, the two orders to keep non-vegetarian food away from Gujarat's religious spaces, issued a week apart in August, ended in opposite ways within weeks of one another. Whereas the court upheld one order banning sale of non-veg food, the municipality climbed down in the other, unrelated instance.

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