The saffron party leader, who earlier pushed for total prohibition in the state, for the last few months had been seeking regularisation of alcohol sale in Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly polls are due by the year-end.
Discounts were a result of the new Excise Policy of the Delhi Government. Liquor stores in some parts of the city, including Jahangirpuri, Shahdara and Mayur Vihar, had offered up to 35 per cent discount on certain IMFL brands.
According to the new excise policy of Delhi, classy liquor vends will be set up in 32 zones across the city. One retail licensee will have 27 liquor shops per zone.
Long queues of tipplers were seen outside liquoir shops in Delhi just minutes after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced six-day lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Social distancing norms were flouted in Maharashtra's Nagpur as people gathered outside a liquor store on Friday night ahead of a week-long lockdown starting on Monday.
Police said they will undertake extensive checks to curb drunken and rash driving and other traffic violations in the interest of public order and safety.
The liquor shops in Delhi will be allowed to function from 10 AM to 10 PM instead of 10 AM to 9 PM.
Anand Mahindra shared a video on Twitter of a liquor shop contactless pickup method and left the netizens amazed. The video shows a long pipe attached in an incline at the shop to take the money and deliver the liquor bottles to the customers.
The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday kick-started the process to run liquor shops whose licences were "surrendered" by contractors amid a stand-off between the two sides on reopening the vends.
A 28-year-old liquor shop owner was allegedly beaten to death by unknown people in Punjab's Khanna. He was killed by around 3-4 people after he refused to give them liquor. Satrughan Pradhan died on the spot.
Kerala reopened liquor shops starting Thursday onwards for the first time since the nation-wide lockdown was imposed. However, Kerala government has launched a mobile app 'BevQ' through which tipplers have to book liquor before collecting it from the respective outlets.
People queue outside a liquor shop in Mayur Vihar Phase-3 amid corona lockdown.
Nainital was hit by a heavy hailstorm on Tuesday but that didn't deter those who wished to buy liquor amid lockdown. Frenzied scenes were witnessed at a shop situated on the Mall Road where a beeline continued despite unconducive weather conditions in the region.
With lockdown 3.0 imposed in the country from Monday. Government ordered to open liquor shop in the cities with certain norms. The police were seen having hard time to control crowd at these shops.
Shops selling non-essential commodities, including liquor, will be allowed to function from Monday in the non-containment zones of Pune district of Maharashtra, an official said.
Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday announced to open liquor shops in orange and green zones districts between 10 am to 7 pm.
Amid lockdown, a miscreant has looted liquor worth Rs 25,000 and Rs 8,000 in cash from a wine shop in Hyderabad, police said on Saturday.
Amid the nationwide lockdown, some unidentified persons broke into a wine shop in New Delhi and decamped with liquor bottles, police said on Saturday.
A liquor shop in Chand Bagh was allegedly looted by a mob which used the bottles during the violence in the area in northeast Delhi, according to the shop manager who said he had called the police twice through the emergency number.
The incident took place around 9.30 pm Wednesday when the two men arrived at the shop in Aichar area under Kasna police station limits, a senior official said.
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