Baby's medicines, water and orange barred at theatre: Commission orders probe

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 (UNI) The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has ordered a three-month police investigation into the practice of cinema theatres prohibiting audiences from carrying outside food and beverages, following a complaint that a family was denied entry with medicines, drinking water and an orange for their eight-month-old baby. Commission Chairperson Justice Alexander Thomas directed the Superintendent of Police attached to the Commission's investigation wing to investigate the alleged incident and examine whether such restrictions are being imposed routinely by cinema theatres. The probe will cover the theatre complex at Overbridge in Thiruvananthapuram, where the incident allegedly occurred, besides…