Reportedly madras high court observed that vending of liquor is an obnoxious trade and it has social and moral dimensions and consequently the restrictions placed by law have to be abided by in the strict sense. Meanwhile the first bench, comprising Chief Justice A P Sahi and Justice Subramonium prasad also directed the authorities concerned to ensure that location of liquor vending shops in rented premises should be permitted and located in only premises that exist by virtue of a valid permission and have a building plan approval as per law.
Furthermore the issue pertains to a PIL moved by Mallasamy Nachimuthu, seeking a direction to the Erode district collector to remove a TASMAC shop located in Mylambadi village on farm land within the time stipulated by the court. Apparently agricultural field is a place worshipped by farmers and to be respected and not to be used for earning revenue through liquor, the bench had said.
Moreover the plea was opposed by the land owner, who submitted that there cannot be a total ban or prohibition of the location of a liquor vending shop over agricultural land under the tamil Nadu Prohibition Act or the tamilnadu Liquor Retail Vending (In Shops and Bars) Rules. She contended no such prohibition stands incorporated so as to exclude a premise from being used as a liquor vending shop in the event it is situated over an agricultural land.
