Can retired BSF personnel be treated as ‘Ex-Servicemen’ for benefits of purchase and consumption of liquor in Tamil Nadu? Madras HC answers
“Even if the claim of the petitioner that discrimination is meted out to retired personnel of BSF as against Ex-servicemen has to be accepted, the consequence would only be that the exemption and concession granted to Ex-servicemen in consumption of liquor would have to be withdrawn, but, it cannot be a ground on parity to extend the same benefit to the retired personnel of the BSF”