Sham Lal etc. v. Union of India and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Supreme Court of India, decided August 16, 1978; Sham Lal etc. v. Union of India and Others - batch of writ petitions dismissed with costs. Subject: validity of Rule 37, Punjab Liquor Licence Rules 1956 (as amended by Haryana: dry days on the 1st and 7th of every month for liquor shops) and s. 59(f)(v), Punjab Excise Act 1914. Disposition adopted the Court's own annexed judgment in Punjab batch writ petition Nos. 4021-4022 of 78 etc.; earlier decision at [1979] 1 SCR 122 followed. Obiter: Haryana and Punjab should declare identical dry days to prevent cross-border trek of drinkers defeating prohibition. Bench: Krishna Iyer, J. (author), D. A. Desai and Chinnappa Reddy, JJ.
What did the court decide?
The arguments in these petitions being identical with those already considered by the Court in the Punjab batch of writ petitions, the judgment in that batch governs these cases also and is annexed hereto; no additional discussion was thought necessary.