A special Division Bench of Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, constituted to hear forest related cases, directed Tasmac Managing Director L. Subramaniam to list by July 15 the modalities to be followed for implementing the bottle buyback scheme followed in the Nilgiris across Tamil Nadu.
Earlier, Additional Advocate General J. Ravindran told the Bench that 29.31 lakh liquor bottles were sold in the Nilgiris district between May 15 (when the empty bottle buyback scheme was introduced at court’s instance) and June 14 this year and that 18.50 lakh bottles had got returned during the same period.
Providing a break-up, he said that 12.63 lakh bottles were returned at the 76 retail liquor vending shops in the district, in order to take back ₹10 that was charged more than the Maximum Retail Price while selling the bottles, and that 5.86 lakh bottles were collected from the bars attached to those liquor retail vending shops.
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