LawforAll

▼
Showing posts with label THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU REP. BY SEC.&ORS Vs. K. BALU & ANR.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU REP. BY SEC.&ORS Vs. K. BALU & ANR.. Show all posts
Monday, April 3, 2017

presence of liquor vends on national and state highways across the country. Official figures of road accidents, with their attendant fatalities and injuries provided the backdrop for the intervention of this Court. This Court adverted to the consistent policy of the Union Government to curb drunken driving and, as an incident of the policy, to remove liquor vends on national highways. The judgment of this Court concludes that there is no justification to allow liquor vends on state highways (while prohibiting them on national highways) having due regard to drunken driving being one of the significant causes of road accidents in India.Hence, by the judgment of this Court, the following directions have been issued for stopping the grant of licences for the sale of liquor along national and state highways and over a distance of 500 metres from the outer edge of the highway or a service lane alongside. 1 April 2017 is fixed as the date for phasing out existing licences. The directions are set out below: All states and union territories shall forthwith cease and desist from granting licences for the sale of liquor along national and state highways; The prohibition contained in (i) above shall extend to and include stretches of such highways which fall within the limits of a municipal corporation, city, town or local authority; The existing licences which have already been renewed prior to the date of this order shall continue until the term of the licence expires but no later than 1 April 2017; All signages and advertisements of the availability of liquor shall be prohibited and existing ones removed forthwith both on national and state highways; No shop for the sale of liquor shall be (i) visible from a national or state highway; (ii) directly accessible from a national or state highway and (iii) situated within a distance of 500 metres of the outer edge of the national or state highway or of a service lane along the highway. All States and Union territories are mandated to strictly enforce the above directions. The Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police shall within one month chalk out a plan for enforcement in consultation with the state revenue and home departments. Responsibility shall be assigned inter alia to District Collectors and Superintendents of Police and other competent authorities. Compliance shall be strictly monitored by calling for fortnightly reports on action taken. These directions issue under Article 142 of the Constitution. “

›
                                    IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA                         CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION  I A Nos  4-6, ...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Road Accidents = No shop for the sale of liquor shall be (i) visible from a national or state highway; (ii) directly accessible from a national or state highway and (iii) situated within a distance of 500 metres of the outer edge of the national or state highway or of a service lane along the highway.

›
                                                                  REPORTABLE                         IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA     ...