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Alcohol is a subject in the State List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. [10] [11] [12] Therefore, the laws governing alcohol vary from state to state. Liquor in India is generally sold at liquor stores, restaurants, hotels, bars, pubs, clubs and discos but not online.
There have been at least two instances of poisonings due to consumption bootleg alcohol in West Bengal, India: In December 2011, 167 people died in West Bengal after consuming it. [1] [2] In September 2015, alcohol poisoning led to the deaths by methanol poisoning of 15 people in West Bengal in India. [3]
According to the government data of 2015, 48% of the West Bengal state's market share is Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL), 39% is the Bangla drink. 11% of the market share is beer and the remaining 2% are occupied by wine and other spirits. [3] Bangla is generally consumed by those who cannot afford other more expensive alcohol. [4]
Liquor and wine can only be bought in liquor stores. But no establishment can serve or sell any alcohol between 4:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. on Sunday mornings. As marijuana becomes more widely ...
The Law Department is assigned with the legislative drafting, publication of notifications, Bills, Ordinances and amendments to Bill and Acts, rules and by-laws through official gazettes of the other administrative Departments of the West Bengal. It also performs periodical revision, correction of orders, settlement of Statutory notifications ...
It stayed proceedings of all challenges to Bihar's new law in the Patna High Court on 2 January 2017, stating that it will itself hear all cases related to the new ban. [23] However, the Bihar government introduced an amendment to the liquor law in the upcoming monsoon session of Bihar assembly beginning 20 July. According to the new amendment ...
The 2011 West Bengal alcohol poisonings killed 167 people in December 2011 [1] in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after consumption of spurious liquor mixed with methanol (methyl alcohol). [ 2 ]
The Indian encyclopedia, Bharater Adibasi, has a description of cholai as being a distilled alcohol made with two earthen pots joined together; the lower pot filled with yeast and mixed rice/jaggery; the upper pot left empty with an output tube. When the lower pot is heated, the vapour of 80% alcohol goes to the upper pot and comes into contact ...