State Should Explain Stand on Prohibition: Gujarat HC
The state government has been asked by a bench of the Gujarat High Court to give its detailed stand on the prohibition law following six petitions challenging the law. The state will have to submit its reply at the next hearing.Three petitioners, including Piyush Patel, had challenged the Act in the HC in 2018. The government could not prevent them from consuming liquor within four walls...
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The state government has been asked by a bench of the Gujarat High Court to give its detailed stand on the prohibition law following six petitions challenging the law. The state will have to submit its reply at the next hearing.
Three petitioners, including Piyush Patel, had challenged the Act in the HC in 2018. The government could not prevent them from consuming liquor within four walls under the Right to Privacy, the petitioners had argued.
In the meantime, five more petitions, including a PIL, were filed before the HC challenging the prohibition law on same grounds.
Bandish Soparkar, counsel for the petitioners, said, “The HC has asked the government to come up with a clear stand by February 11.All the pleas have mostly uniform contentions that the people of the state have a right to consume liquor under the Right to Privacy as per the Supreme Court.”
