| The Supreme Court upheld a federal law that facilitates middle and lower-middle class families to restrict marriage parties to only soft drinks in hotels while allowing meals to guests within the precincts of a house. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui dismissed constitutional pleas of one Chaudhry Muhammad against the federal law banning lavish meal expenditure on marriage parties. The apex court ruling while citing section No. 4 (1) of the law stated, "No person celebrating his marriage or any other person shall serve or allow any one to serve meals or other edibles to persons participating in the marriage in a club, hotel, restaurant, wedding hall, community center or any other place except hot and cold soft drinks." However, the law allows the eating of meals within a house by members of the family celebrating the marriage or the house guests. |