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India Bans Alcohol From Hotels, Airports 500 Meters From Highways
Ryan Boyd April 03, 2017
India’s Supreme Court has extended its December ruling forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages within 500 meters of highways also applies to hotels and restaurants. The December 2016 ruling is meant to reduce the number of alcohol-related road fatalities and drunk-driving arrests, and all alcohol-serving establishments within 500 yards of roads have been forced to move.
“Taj Palace, Taj Mansingh, all in the heart of Delhi, cannot serve liquor if this ruling applies to them,” the counsel had argued. They are all within the 500-metre limit,” said Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi.
To read more on this story, go to The Economic Times.
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Noticing a few corrections, 4 months after the fact: Your headline says "Hotels, Airports" and an airport image is shown, but the linked article does not mention airports, only "Hotels, restaurants". While it is conceivable that a restaurant or hotel located in an airport could fall under the 500-meter rule, no evidence is given to support this. Your mention of "establishments within 500 yards of roads" is imprecise because "municipal roads" are stated as *not* falling under the rule, only "national and state highways". Also, per the linked article, "They are all within the 500-metre limit" is not a direct quote but a paraphrase, and from context it is attributed to "the counsel [for the hotel association]", who is named in the previous paragraph as CA Sundaram, not Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi.