States should consider home d♛elivery or indirect sale of liquor to main𓂃tain social distancing protocols at alcohol shops during the nationwide lockdown, the Supreme Court observed on Friday.
The apex court was hear♌ing a petition that challenged the opening of liquor shops and sought issuing of directions to declare direct-con💧tact sales of alcoholic liquors at shops during the lockdown period as unconstitutional, null and void, Live Law .
A three-judge bench of justices Ashok Bhushan, S🦋anjay Kishan Kaul and BR Gavai heard the case thro👍ugh video-conferencing.
"We will not pass any order but states should consider home delivery or indirect sale of l꧙iquor to maintain social distancing," the three-judge bench said.
Advocate Sai Deepak, appearing on behalf of the petitioner, had said that social distanಌcing was not being maintained at liquor shops. "The number of shops is very less and the number of those who want it (liquor) is very large," he said.
"MHA must make clarifications in this regard, life of the common man must not get affected," the advocate submitted b꧟efore the bench.
