A Consumer redressal commission has said if meat-based food hurts a “strictly vegetarian” person’s religious sentiments, why should the individual opt to order from a restaurant serving both veg and non-veg items.

It seems reasonable that “a prudent person would be able to distinguish between veg and non-veg food before consuming,” the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Mumbai Suburban (Additional) said in an order passed last month. The commission dismissed a complaint by two people against an eatery for allegedly wrongly serving them non-vegetarian food.

“If the complainants were strictly vegetarian and non-veg food hurts their religious sentiments, then why did they opt to order the food items from the restaurant which was delivering both non-veg and vegetarian food, instead of ordering the food from the restaurant which was exclusively vegetarian,” it said.