The Maharashtra government does not have the rules to regulate the food prices at cinema halls in the state and has told the same to Bombay High Court. The court was hearing a PIL regarding that people should be allowed to carry their own food inside multiplexes. The government further told the HC that it would need four weeks to draft a policy. The advocate general pleader (AGP) Poornima Katharina told this to the division bench headed by Justice Ranjit More, who was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) which asked patrons to be allowed to carry food inside cinema halls. Maharashtra government was supposed to come out with a policy pertaining to food articles being allowed inside cinema halls. However, AGP Katharina told the court that they just had a meeting on May 29 with all concerned people and that they would need four weeks time to formulate a policy. Advocate Aditya Pratap, representing the petitioner, who had been part of this meeting, said that during the meeting, the multiplex owners said that their business operations would be affected as well as it would be a security risk to allow food inside cinema hall premises.
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