Multiplexes cannot prohibit outside food articles: Maharashtra government

Maharashtra government has announced on Friday that the state government has clarified that there is no restriction on taking food articles from outside multiplexes and consuming them in the multiplexes. The state government on Friday said that strict action would be taken against any such multiplexes who prohibit people from bringing in food stuff from outside.

The announcement to this affect was made by Minister of state for Food and civil supplies Ravindra Chavan in response to a query raised by NCP MLC Dhananjay Munde. The NCP MLC had brought out the government’s attention to the prices levied by Multiplexes for products bought within the establishments due to their monopoly.

Chavan said that there was no such rule under which multiplexes can charge huge amounts of money and said that there cannot be two different prices for the same product. Recently the Bombay High Court too had pulled up the state government and multiplexes based on a PIL on how multiplexes were not allowing people to bringing in food stuff procured from outside multiplexes and were charging an exorbitant amount for people who bought food products from within the multiplexes.