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Five years jail, no bail for taking more than 1 liquor bottle into UP

  • PublishedApril 6, 2018

The Uttar Pradesh government has uncorked a series of changes on sale of liquor in the state, the latest on April 5  bringing down business time for booze shops by four hours.

But a tweak that will concern people in NCR the most is an amendment the government made to the liquor law late last year to stop out the practice of buying alcohol at cheaper rates from neighbouring Delhi.

The state government had in September last year made an amendment to the UP Excise Act, 1910, to bring down the import of liquor from other states. The new law makes it a non-bailable offence to carry along more than one sealed bottle of liquor from other neighbouring states and carries a maximum punishment of five years in jail along with a fine of Rs 5,000 or ten times the revenue the state would have earned from the bottles, whichever is higher.

The rules, however, do not apply if the bottles are open.

The UP government announced that liquor shops in the state would now open only at noon and close at 10pm. The earlier business hours for liquor outlets were from 9am to 11pm. The slashing of the business hours got the thumbs up from various residents’ associations.

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