JUSTICE V Kameswar Rao of the Delhi High Court is hearing a batch of petitions moved by retail liquor licensees challenging the order issued by the Excise Commissioner prohibiting discounts or rebates or concessions on the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of liquor in the national capital. Defending the decision to stop discounts or rebates by retail liquor vendors, the Delhi government apprised the Court that the giving of huge discounts by liquor vends was an attempt by a few to “monopolize” the whole system. “The government found, as a policy measure, that Delhi could not become a city for promoting drunkenness through the measure of discounts. This was being misused over and over again by attracting and luring people by absolutely unreasonable and strange discounting policies. It was also used as a measure of monopolizing," submitted Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on behalf of the Delhi government.
The petitions were filed in the backdrop of the February 28 order issued by the Delhi Excise Commissioner discontinuing any discount or rebate or concession by retail license holders after witnessing long queues at outlets offering discounts on liquor. “As a result of the discounts being offered by the licensees through their retail vends, there are instances reported of large crowds gathering outside the liquor stores leading to law and order problem and causing inconvenience to local population of an area," said the excise department, while calling for initiating penal action against the licensees found acting in contravention of the order.
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