Right to carry on business (Art. 19(1)(g)) is permitted for spa centres subject to obtaining statutory permissions and adhering to court-mandated guidelines to prevent immoral activities, including maintaining visitor registers and ensuring transparency.

ORDER

This Writ Petition is filed seeking the following relief:-
“…to issue an appropriate writ order or direction more preferably one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus directing the action of Respondents Police Officials and Officers of SOT in interfering with lawful business of petitioner shops under the guise of impugned notification No. (L&O)/M4/3140/2010 dated 30-06-2010passed by therespondent and forcir tic petitioners to secure similar orders from this Honourable Court as pried WP No 16281 of 2010 and batch though there is no violation annmitied by the petitioners in running SPA Wellness Ceram as arbitrary illegal and unconstittional violative of Articles 14 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India and direct the respondents and the 3 to interfere in the day to day business of petitioner shops and grant such other necessary other necessary relief or reliefs as this Honble Court may and proper in the circumstances of the case..”

2. Heard Sri Tallari Raju, learned counsel representing Sri Revelli Ramanjaneyulu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Srinivas, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home appearing for the respondents and with their consent, this writ petition is being taken up for disposal at the admission stage.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner is engaged in the business of providing solutions for all beauty and wellness needs such as saloon and spa. The petitioner is holding a valid registration certificate for running the business in the name and style of “Refresh Hub Beauty and Spa, 11-13-326/R, First Floor, Raod No.10, Alkapuri, Kothapet, Sarrornagar, 500035, Karmanghat, Saroornagar, Ranga Reddy. It is further submitted that the respondent-police visited the SPA Centre and asked the petitioner whether it has an order from this Court to run the business as this Court had decided similar issues in the order, dated 28.09.2021 in W.P.No.16281 of 2010 and batch , wherein this Court issued the following directions:-

“In view of the submissions of learned counsel for both sides, these Writ Petitions are disposed of in terms of order dated 04.02.2021 in I.A.No.1 of 2020 in W.P.No.24410 of 2020, permitting the petitioners to run the massage centres, subject to maintaining a record in the register to be maintained by the massage centres containing the dates of visits of the customers, their names and verifiable addresses together with the phone numbers, so as to enable the police to contact them on the aspect of the request to the owner/manager/operator of the massage centres to provide for the help from the opposite sex. Further, it shall be open to any police officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector of Police attached to any police station to verify once in a while such records maintained by the massage centres and he shall also be at liberty to verify as to whether the particular customer has solicited any such special service from the massage centre or not. It is also open to the police to take appropriate action depending upon the result of any such verification and also considering the fact that whether the cross massage service provided to the customers is in professional manner or not. Police are also entitled to investigate into crimes, if any, reported against the petitioners. Petitioners are also directed not to keep the main door of the premises closed, during the working hours. Subject to these conditions, the petitioners may be permitted to carry on the business, duly taking all necessary and proper precautions to ensure that no incident of immoral activity is carried on under the guise of provi