Supreme Court of India
Hotel Priya, A Proprietorship v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
For the foregoing reasons, the impugned judgment is hereby set aside.
Judgment, page 27
From the headnote
Licensing and Performance for Public Amusement including Cabaret Performance, Melas and Tamashas Rules, 1960 – rr.108, 109, 120, 122 and 123 – Constitution of India – Article 15(1), 19(1)(g) – Impugned conditions inter alia imposed a gender cap as to the number of women or men, who can perform in orchestras and bands in licensed bars – Challenge to – Conditions upheld by High Court – On appeal, held: Impugned gender cap is the product of stereotypical view that women who perform in bars and establishments, like the appellants, belong to a certain class of society – Such measures that claim to…
Authorities it was built on
- 2003 State of Punjab and Anr. v. Mis. Devans Modern Breweries and Anr. Etc.
- 2007 Anuj Garg & Ors. v. Hotel Association of India & Ors.
- 2004 Union of India v. Naveen Jindal and Anr.
- 2018 Joseph Shine v. Union of India
- 1986 Bijoe Emmanuel & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Ors.
- 2013 State of Maharashtra & Anr. v. Indian Hotel & Restaurants Assn. & Ors
- 1979 C. B. Muthamma v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2018 Karnataka Live Band Restaurants Association v. State of Karnataka & Ors.
- 2019 Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association (ahar) & Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 mentioned
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