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The Supreme Court today upheld the liquor policy of Kerala government restricting sale of alcohol to only five star bars. A bench of Justices Vikramjit Sen and Shiva Kirti Singh upheld the State’s argument that even “unreasonable restrictions” by the State cannot be challenged by liquor traders.
Giving the thumbs down to the challenge against the liquor policy by three star and four star bar owners, the judgment agreed with the Kerala government that its liquor ban has nothing to do with “neat and clean” bars and has everything to do with the health of a nation.
The court has agreed with the State’s argument that liquor traders have no business to intervene in the policy prescriptions of the State government.