commerce owners walk a fine line in ingenious efforts to skirt supreme court ban on sale of alcohol within 500 metres of highwaysLocals say the maze appeared around December. Outside the Aishwarya Restrobar in north Paravoor – one of the few places you could rep a drink in Kerala,a dry state – there had suddenly sprung up a series of winding grey walls, forcing patrons to walk additional metres to the bar.
And that may have been the point. An Indian supreme court judgment delivered in December and enforced since 1 April has banned the sale of alcohol within 500 metres of India’s state and national highways. Related: Karnataka leads the way as India's good samaritan law takes aim at road deaths | Vidhi Doshi Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com