{"id":34038,"date":"2018-10-30T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34038"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:05:17","slug":"liquor-sale-ban-exemption-applies-nationwidesc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/liquor-sale-ban-exemption-applies-nationwidesc\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquor sale ban exemption applies nationwide:SC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/liquor-sale-ban-exemption-applies-nationwide-says-sc\/article20385485.ece\"><b>Liquor sale ban exemption applies nationwide:SC<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The July 11 order of the apex court that clarified the stretches of highways running through municipal areas were exempted from the ban was in news again as the question remains that whether the exemption granted to municipal areas in the July 11 order pertained to only municipal areas in Chandigarh and none other.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The doubt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doubt was raised by the Madras High Court and the Madras HC asked the Tamil Nadu government to approach the Supreme Court and get a clarification.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The High Court says municipal areas in the SC order means only areas in Punjab and not in Chennai.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Apex court reply<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The order applies for municipal areas in Chandigarh it will apply equally for municipal areas across the country,\u201d Chief Justice Misra responded orally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who had authored the highway ban verdict observed that the exemption from ban applies to municipal areas across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What led to the confusion?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason of the present confusion was a particular paragraph in the July 11 order which said, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the directions contained in the order dated December 15, 2016 is to deal with the sale of liquor along and in proximity of highways properly understood, which provide connectivity between cities, towns and villages. The order does not prohibit licensed establishments within municipal areas. This clarification shall govern other municipal areas as well. We have considered it appropriate to issue this clarification to set at rest any ambiguity and to obviate repeated recourse to IAs (interlocutory applications), before the court<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe phrase \u2018other municipal areas\u2019 in the order means municipal areas across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Madras High Court\u2019s Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M. Sundar had<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clarification<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This clarification from the apex court had effectively made infructuous any pending litigation in High Courts on declassification of State or national highways to district roads by State governments or local authorities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court\u2019s clarification had come as a huge relief for bar and hotel owners who were forced to shut down operations post the December 15 ban. Thousands were left jobless after these establishments were closed down.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why was the ban imposed?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme court had imposed the ban after hearing a plea that claimed that nearly 1.42 lakh people died in road accidents every year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drunk driving is a potent cause of fatalities and injuries in road accidents<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Constitution preserves and protects the right to life as an overarching Constitutional value<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which states are exempted from the ban?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top court had exempted the states of Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Sikkim and places with populations less than 20,000 from the restriction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The supreme court had also relaxed the norms for Arunachal Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the economic implications of this ban?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move could lead to states losing overall tax revenue of Rs 50,000 crore, restaurants and pubs taking a hit of Rs 10,000-15,000 crore and 100,000 people going out of work<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State revenue losses are estimated at Rs 50,000 crore, besides job losses of over a lakh<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top three \u2014 United Spirits BSE 3.78 %, Pernod Ricard and Allied Blenders, which account for 60% of overall sales \u2014 had zero growth by volume in the April-December period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liquor sales in India slowed to 0.4% in the first nine months of the financial year, the slowest growth in a market that\u2019s been expanding rapidly since 2001, with a compounded annual growth rate of over 12% in the decade to 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why the ban is good?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bans serve some immediate benefits to their users.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In politics, be it US or Bihar, the \u2018right-intention\u2019 serves the purpose of the initiative rather than the ultimate result of the act.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, the common mass is generally occasional drinkers. Curtailing alcohol supply will in hand curtail their drinking behavior.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In politics, ban of alcohol solves an array of problems for many households. Thus, it consolidates some segment of their voter base.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are seen to be communal and domestic violence cases which seem to abate after a ban.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, in Bihar, people especially women are talking about its positive effect and how their lives have changed after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar\u2019s historic decision.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why the ban is not good?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to psychologist Jack Brehm, humans hate obstruction of personal freedom. Accordingly, they get into a rebellious state of mind and regain their freedom through illegal affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The undercover liquor supply makes its way for new problems like spurious liquor, gang wars and sale of other narcotic substances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economically, following the Supreme Court, the country has been facing problems for clubs, hotels and restaurants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Chennai, around 120 bars attached to clubs have remained closed since April 1, and the loss to the industry is estimated to be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u20b9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">600 crores, according to Benze Saravanan, founder, Tamil Nadu Bar and Club Owners Association.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large hotel chains are not the only ones affected by the ban.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food and beverage revenues have declined by 30-40% since the court order, and specialty restaurants have been badly hit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a nutshell, in the two months since the court ruling, the hospitality industry in Chennai has lost an estimated <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u20b9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3,000 crores.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With hardly any progress being made on resolving the issue, the hospitality industry says business in hotels on arterial roads has been crippled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is directly affecting their employees too.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquor sale ban exemption applies nationwide:SC\u00a0 Context The July 11 order of the apex court that clarified the stretches of highways running through municipal areas were exempted from the ban was in news again as the question remains that whether the exemption granted to municipal areas in the July 11 order pertained to only municipal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/liquor-sale-ban-exemption-applies-nationwidesc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liquor sale ban exemption applies nationwide:SC\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704756347},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}