Allahabad High Court issued guidelines for restaurants and eateries

  • | Friday | 2nd October, 2020

Allahabad High Court issued guidelines for restaurants and eateries and directed the state government to prescribe quality standards for manufacturing masks and sanitisers as per the directives of Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR).

Allahabad High Court issued guidelines for restaurants and eateries and directed the state government to prescribe quality standards for manufacturing masks and sanitisers as per the directives of Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR).

The division bench incorporate Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Ajit Kumar, while hearing the PIL relating to Covid-19 on Thursday, said if restaurants permit people to have food in their premises then they should ensure that social distancing is maintained.

Guidelines issued for restaurants, eateries and small outlets in the state, the court said no eatery shall allow its customer to hang around and have food openly. Besides, no customer/ individual should be seen without a mask within five yards of every eatery, the court directed. “No person should be allowed to throw any used plate, spoon or glass near the eatery. If any customer/ individual is seen without a mask or having food within five yards of the eatery then suitable action would definitely follow. Besides, no roadside eateries and open air restaurants shall sell potable water,” it said. The court also directed that each eatery having a turnover of more than Rs.5,000 per day should have CCTV cameras installed in its premises.

All eateries would make arrangements for selling food articles in tightly packed/ sealed boxes which definitely would not be openable with ease and the customer should thereafter open it only at his residence,” the court directed.
“Likewise guidelines with regard to manufacturing of sanitizers shall also be issued by the state government in accordance with the ICMR Rules,” the court said, adding that a notification of “No Mask No Entry” may be published in various daily newspapers in all the districts throughout the state.


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