State has complete control over liquor sale and is hence liable to pay compensation to the kin of those who lost lives and vision after alcohol poisoning, said Allahabad High Court while hearing the petition filed by widows and son of men who lost their lives due to consumption of poisonous liquor in Azamgarh in 2021.
The counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Jai Prakash Mishra, told the court that all the consumers have purchased liquor from Licensed Retail Vend Country Liquor Shops which were sold by the licensees to them as branded liquor. As per charge sheet prepared by the police the licensed vendors and certain other persons were involved in manufacture and sale of poisonous liquor which was being sold in the nearby areas.
