SC to hear plea to ban water supply to liquor industry

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea seeking complete ban on water supply to distilleries and breweries in drought-hit regions of Maharashtra. A vacation bench posted the matter for hearing on 23rd of this month after a lawyer mentioned the plea saying that instead of curtailed water supply, there should be no supply of water at all as the entire region is facing acute water shortage.

style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">The petitioner said, people are being deprived of the drinking water as it is being given to the liquor industries. The Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court had recently asked the state government to curtail water supply to the liquor industry by 60 per cent from 10th May, which would be operative till 27th June.