High Court dismisses plea to ban glass bottles in Liquor shops

 

On Wednesday, the High Court of Madras dismissed a PIL that sought a ban on the use of glass bottles to sell liquor at the State-run shops. The Court said there was no law against the use of glass bottles & that any direction against liquor bottles would have a consequent effect on sale of other consumables too in glass bottles.

Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari & Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy refused to entertain the Public Interest Litigation filed by Rangarajan Narasimhan of Srirangam at the admission state itself. The litigant had claimed that the use of glass bottles was causing nuisance to farmers since they were invariably thrown in the agricultural fields.

He said the farmers run the risk of stepping on the broken glass pieces & hence it had become a ritual for the farmers to clear their fields of glass pieces before stepping in. The tipplers use the fields for consuming liquor during night hours & throw away the bottles into the fields, he complained. He also referred to a study that claimed that glass was more harmful than plastics.

 

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