SC bans hotels, restaurants along highways from serving liquor

New Delhi March 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said hotels and restaurants falling within 500 metres on either side of the national and state highways cannot serve liquor.

A bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao however relaxed the ban to 220 metres in respect of municipal bodies with 20 000 or less population falling along the highways.

--IANS
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