Supreme Court upholds ban on liquor shops along highways
The apex court ordered the ban of liquor sale at restaurant, shops, pub and bars as well as its advertisements along highways.
Previously, the Supreme Court banned liquor sale within 500 metres from national and state highways which had been reduced on Friday to 220 metres of an area with 20000 population.
Reiterating the order, the SC said: "The objective is to check drunken driving and so there is dilution of the original order passed by this court. Drunken driving as the objective is a major cause of road accidents in the country."
However, the bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar exempted hill states like Sikkim and Meghalaya from the order keeping in mind their mountainous terrain and thick jungles.
The order of the SC was followed by several petitions concerning over number of death that occurred on highway in recent past.
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