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July 18, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
Ahead of the kanwar yatra that is set to begin next week – in which pilgrims will travel by foot to Uttarakhand and back – police in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur districts have ordered all restaurants, food stalls and fruit vendors along the yatra’s route to clearly display the names of their owners and employees. Muzaffarnagar’s cops say they took this step to prevent “confusion” among pilgrims. What kind of confusion? The police obviously won’t elaborate but
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