Hyderabad, July 27 -- Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday, July 26, said there was no law banning anyone from consuming chicken over the Ganga, referring to the arrest of 14 Muslim youth over the iftar party where they ate chicken biryani on a boat ride in Varanasi during Ramzan.

Addressing the 4th Justice GP Singh Memorial Lecture at NLIU Bhopal, Justice Bhuyan criticised the three-month incarceration of a youth for conduct that fails to constitute a criminal offence.

"I am sure consuming chicken biryani is not an offence. It can't be an offence.they were arrested for that very reason, and they had to remain in jail for three months," he said.

In March, the Varanasi police arrested 14 Muslim youth under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhit...