{"id":36321,"date":"2018-11-02T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36321"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:39:34","slug":"sc-open-to-liquor-sale-on-city-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-open-to-liquor-sale-on-city-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"SC open to liquor sale on city highways:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/sc-open-to-liquor-sale-on-highways-in-cities\/article19212807.ece\">SC open to liquor sale on city highways<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sign of relief may come to hotels, pubs as the Supreme Court on Tuesday prima facie observed that there may be nothing wrong in de-notifying particular stretches of highways running inside city limits as liquor-free zones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court has scheduled a detailed hearing for July 11.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Change of stance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As city roads and such de-classification does not violate its order that national and State highways across the country should be liquor-free zones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roads in question do not normally see high-speed traffic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The objective of the liquor ban was to prevent drunken driving in fast-moving traffic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pace of traffic within city is very different from the traffic outside city limits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the ban is to avoid drivers getting inebriated while driving on highways inter-linking cities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Relief to Hotel and Pub owners<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The verdict in March 2017 also encircled larger establishments, including pubs and hotels, such a de-tour of the verdict is a great sign of relief to them. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court on March 2017 said exempting establishments other than \u201cshops involved in sale of liquor&#8221;, which include bar-attached hotels, wine and beer parlours dotting highways would amount to dilution of its December 15 judgment&#8217;s objective to prevent drunk driving, one of the major killers plaguing Indian roads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC open to liquor sale on city highways:\u00a0 Context \u00a0A sign of relief may come to hotels, pubs as the Supreme Court on Tuesday prima facie observed that there may be nothing wrong in de-notifying particular stretches of highways running inside city limits as liquor-free zones. \u00a0The court has scheduled a detailed hearing for July&hellip; 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