What Is In The Interest Of The General Public? Examining The Constitutional Validity Of Meat Ban Orders During Religious Festivals | Law and Other Things

What Is In The Interest Of The General Public? Examining The Constitutional Validity Of Meat Ban Orders During Religious Festivals | Law and Other Things

This blog examines the constitutional validity of meat ban orders imposed during religious festivals across India, which restrict the fundamental right to freedom of trade under Article 19(1)(g). The blog analyses the literal and purposive interpretation of the phrase "interests of the general public" in Article 19(6) which provides for reasonable restriction on the right to freedom of trade. The blog first demonstrates that this phrase explicit…