The Tamil Nadu government has informed the Madras High Court that a special licence for serving liquor during international and national events at conference halls, convention centres and stadia shall be issued on condition that it should be served to the guests strictly within a designated area away from public view.
The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy has also been informed of a series of other stringent conditions that the government proposes to impose on the licencees to ensure that the special licence was not misused to indulge in illegal sale of liquor.
The submissions were made in an additional counter affidavit filed by the Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise J. Jayakanthan in response to a public interest litigation petition filed by K. Balu, president of Advocates’ Forum for Social Justice, against the introduction of the special licence regime for serving liquor.
