Karnataka outdoes itself with liquor sales of Rs 197 cr on day 2


Bengaluru, May 6 (IANS): A record Rs 197 crore worth of liquor was sold in Karnataka on the second day of shops reopening in all areas except Covid-hit containment zones after the extended lockdown norms were relaxed, an official said on Tuesday, May 5. 

"The shops across the state sold 36.37 lakh litres of Indian Made Liquor (IML) valued at Rs 182 crore and 7.02 lakh litres of beer valued at Rs 15 crore, which together amounts to Rs 197 crore," a state excise official said in a statement here.

On the first day of reopening the shops on Monday, 8.5 lakh litres of IML and 3.9 lakh litres of beer with a combined value of Rs 45 crore was sold after 40 days of lockdown.

As per the revised guidelines, liquor shops are allowed to do business from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily till May 17 when the extended lockdown ends.

In a related development, the Excise Department booked a case against a wine shop owner in the state capital for allegedly selling more liquor than permitted under the law to a buyer on Monday, an official said on Tuesday.

"We have booked a case against licensed shop owner S. Venkatesh for reportedly selling Indian made liquor (IML) and beer to a buyer more than he is permitted under the Karnataka Excise Act section 36," Bengaluru South Excise Deputy Commissioner J. Giri told IANS.

The alleged sale came to light when the unidentified customer post in the social media went viral flaunting a receipt showing details of liquor he bought worth Rs 52,841 from Vanilla Spirit Zone on Monday afternoon.

"Preliminary investigation revealed that 17.4 litres of IML was sold against the permissible limit of 2.3 litres and 35.1 litres of beer against the legal limit of 18.2 litres," Giri said.

Venkatesh, however, told Giri that the buyer paid for the liquor bought by him and seven of his colleagues at the same time from the shop as they entered together.

Giri said that they were investigating the matter.

 

 

  

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  • SJM, Mangalore.

    Wed, May 06 2020

    Govt. Please apply BPL and APL cards as liquor purchase licence and fix the limits accordingly . If anyone abuse please stop the free rations from Govt as well terminate cards for certain period. - This is the best way to control otherwise our state will be crises and disaster .

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  • H. Almeida., Bendur/Andheri

    Wed, May 06 2020

    Readers, there will certainly be thousands of families, who must have lamented, the withdrawal of dry days in Karnataka state... How many wives, children, must have endured, pain n suffering, due to abuse, by their menfolk, who must have blown up their savings on Alcohol !!! This is the real tragedy of rampant drunkenness in our society....

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  • Ashok, Mangalore

    Wed, May 06 2020

    Why can't they change the name from "Karnataka Excise department" to "Karnataka Kudukara department"? This respect should be given when they are immensely helping our economy.

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  • AD, Mangalore

    Wed, May 06 2020

    Only essentials items are mandated to be open.Seems liquour is deemed essential. Places of learning and places of worship are deemed unessential. Now I have realised I wasted so much of my time in life behind non essential things:)

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  • Anamika, Bajpe

    Wed, May 06 2020

    Peoples standing in queue outside the wine shop are the back bone of our Indian economy not farmers.
    Bad corona spreading peoples are fasting.

    Jai Hind.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Wed, May 06 2020

    case will not stand at cost. but he contributed much 2 lift da economy.

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