New Delhi: Wednesday the Delhi High Court requested that the Delhi Government’s response to the application to place a strong mechanism for mandatory age checks at liquor stores, bars and restaurants serving alcohol with a government identity card.
The request also strives to hold the Delhi government so that it has no effect on the new 2021-22 excise policy that reduces alcohol age from 25 to 21 years until a strong age verification mechanism is enforced.
Chairman of the Judge DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued a notification to the Delhi government who tried to respond to the request and registered this problem to hear further on September 17.
Application submitted by the organization, through activist driving, through activist driving, through activist driving, through activist driving.
Singhal, look for mandatory age checks in places that sell and serve alcohol including bars, pubs, vends liquor and food and drink outlets.
Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Rahul Mehra, who represented the Delhi government, argued that this was an attempt to stop policies under one pretext or another.
The applicant claimed that the pill was submitted after the Delhi government failed to take action in the previous petition submitted by him in 2017 where the court had directed the country to form a policy during alcohol checking times.
“Because the Delhi government introduced new excise policies and liberalized alcohol policies that reduce legal drinking age and increase alcohol availability to make alcohol policies almost equivalent to countries in the West, has become increasingly related to the age of consumers strictly.
As did in countries.
West, “he said.
The request said the age verification mechanism must be carried out with the help of matching it with an identity card issued by the government such as Aadhaar and voter cards.
It is also sought forward that the Delhi government can be detained from giving effects on the recent amendments made in excise rules that allow the delivery of the delivery of liquor delivery to a strong age verification mechanism institutionalized even for door delivery.
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