(1.) PERMISSION to file special leave petitions is granted.
(2.) LEAVE granted in all the special leave petitions. INTRODUCTION The trade in country/foreign liquor is said to be res extra commercium. A citizen does not have any fundamental right to deal therewith. The State alone has the exclusive privilege to deal in liquor from manufacture to distribution and from sale to consumption.
(3.) SECTION 7(e) of the Act provides that the State Government may, by notification, for the whole or for any specified part of the State, delegate to the Chief Revenue authority or the Excise Commissioner all or any of its powers under the said Act except the power conferred by SECTION 62 to make rules.