Mumbai: Providing relief to the distilleries
which would receive incentives from the Maharashtra government
for producing liquor from food grains, the Bombay High Court
today dismissed the PIL against the scheme.
Saying that there was no merit in the PIL filed by social
activist Chetan Kamble, the division bench of Justices F I
Rebello and J H Bhatia also lifted the earlier stay to
disbursal of subsidy to distilleries.
The government's scheme to provide incentives to
distilleries producing liquor from food grains had drawn a lot
of flak from Opposition parties in the state.
Advocate Uday Warunjikar, appearing for petitioner, had
argued that the move would create food grains scarcity and
worsen the inflation.
-PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 19:39