How SC's highway liquor ban is hurting states

The ban threatens the liquor, hotel and tourism industries and also hurts employment generation

The Liquor industry has been hit hard by the recent order of the Supreme Court that has imposed prohibition on the sale or serving of alcohol on all national and state highways. The Supreme Court recently reserved its order on a batch of petitions seeking modification of its order banning liquor vendors along national and state highways. A bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said that in the "interest of the public health" the liquor shops were ordered to be removed to a distance of 500 meters from either side of