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Supreme Court:<\/strong> While stressing upon the alarming statistics on the occurrence of road\u00a0accidents due to drunken driving the Full Bench comprising of T.S. Thakur, CJ., D.Y.\u00a0Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao, JJ. prohibited all States and Union Territories from granting\u00a0licenses for the sale of liquor along national and state highways.\u00a0In 2007, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways had issued a circular to all the State\u00a0Governments advising them to remove liquor shops situated along national highways and not to\u00a0issue fresh licenses. Moreover, the Union Government had formulated for adoption by the States\u00a0a Model Policy, which provided for a minimum distance from the state\/national highways for\u00a0locating liquor shops. However, an exception was carved out to the effect that the national or\u00a0state highways would not include such parts of them as are situated within the limits of local\u00a0authorities.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court noted that though the advisories issued are confined to national highways, it\u00a0would defy common sense to prohibit liquor shops along national highways while permitting\u00a0them on state highways, and thereby directed all States and Union Territories to cease the\u00a0granting of licenses to liquor vends along national and state highways. Also, in order to ensure\u00a0that the prohibition is not defeated by artifice, the Court further directed that:<\/p>\n

(i) The prohibition shall also extend to stretches of such highways which fall within the\u00a0limits of local authorities;<\/p>\n

(ii) Advertisements of the availability of liquor on highways are prohibited;<\/p>\n

(iii) No shop for the sale of liquor shall be (a) visible from a highway; (b) directly\u00a0accessible from a highway and (c) situated within a distance of 500 meters of the\u00a0outer edge of the highway.<\/p>\n

[State of Tamil Nadu v. K Balu, 2016 SCC OnLine SC 1487<\/a>, decided on December 15,\u00a02016]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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