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The present elections are not Parliamentary elections and the yardstick applicable to those elections cannot be ipse dixit applied to elections for Graduate constituencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Thus, the Court directed that the prohibitory ban imposed by the impugned order in both the Writ Petitions shall only be restricted to 30-01-2023 and all other days stand exempted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">All India Wine Producers Association v. The Deputy Speaker and Assistant Chief Election Commissioner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/fDb93y26\">2023 SCC OnLine Bom 228<\/a>, decided on 25-01-2023<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">Mr Atul Damle, Senior Advocate i\/by Mr. Vivek V. Salunke for Petitioner<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">Mr. P.G. Sawant, AGP for State<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">*Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Imposing a prohibitory ban on merchant establishments and establishments that provide livelihood is contrary to the enshrined principles under Article 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":278061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[13681,2518,3260,9861,54779,54778,34915],"class_list":["post-282612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-article-21","tag-Bombay_High_Court","tag-Constitution","tag-liquor-ban","tag-nashik-constituency","tag-parliamentary-elections","tag-right-to-livelihood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yardstick for parliamentary elections cannot be applied ipse dixit to every local election; 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