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The hospitality industry in India breathed a sigh of relief this week with the Supreme Court ruling that roads inside city limits were not “high-speed highways”, and as such could be denotified, thus paving the way for exemption from the court’s earlier ruling to shut down establishments less than 500 metres from all state and central highways.
The intention of the earlier ruling was to prevent people, particularly drivers of heavy goods vehicles, from drinking and driving. Unfortunately, by not defining “highways”, this led to the stoppage of service of all alcoholic beverages in establishments even in the heart of
