Tashi Rabstan, J.

1. Though the medium of this Public Interest Litigation, the petitioners are seeking a direction to the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, respondent No.1 herein, for ensuring proper implementation of Jammu & Kashmir Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1975 in its letter and spirit. They are further seeking a direction to respondents 3 to 6 herein prohibiting them from restraining the movie goers from taking outside eatables with them inside the Cinema Halls, required to be consumed during the time they see the feature film in the cinema halls.

2. It is averred in the petition by the petitioners, who are practicing lawyers, that in every Cinema Theatre the cinema owners have pasted notices in the theatre premises itself, whereby they have prohibited the movie goers from taking outside the eatable items inside the cinema halls. It is averred that at the entry point in every cinema hall, every cinema goer who purchases a ticket for seeking the movie, is asked to offer search of their belongings by the security guards and, in case, there is found some eatable items with them, the same are removed, irrespective of the fact that the eatable items which is found from the s