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A Bar In Kerala India Just Made A 250m-Long Maze Wall To Beat Supreme Court's 500m Rule
According to the owners the 10m-wide walkway was completed in three days at a cost of about 1.5 lakh rupees.
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This Bar owner has come up with an ingenious method to bypass this new law.
-Tejinder Kamboj
Since April 1,2017 a large number of the bars, pubs and liquor shops
across India have gone out of business, thanks to a Supreme Court order
that the outlets should be at least 500m away from State and National
highways.
The verdict, like most of the states was a blow to the booze lovers in Kerala too. But what made the situation worse in state is there was already a ban in place, by which only three-star hotels and above are allowed to serve liquor.
Most of the bars were then converted into beer and wine parlors, which were also forced to shut down after
the SC order. But a bar in Ernakulam district decide to make a way around it, literally! Read on to find out what a bar owner did to reopen his business.
The Aishwarya Bar in North Paravoor, a Kochi suburb has built a 250m-long maze-like walkway to the entrance,theoretically making it more than 500m away from the highway.
"We have done nothing illegal. The plot behind the bar also belongs to the owner and we have constructed an extended way to reach the bar. Now it is 520 metres from the highway. We are set to approach the circle inspector of excise with the new route map to authorize the reopening of the bar," said Shiju P, bar manager.
‘If you’re not cheating, you’re not
trying,’ or ‘rules are meant to be broken,’ these are old adages that
well…cheaters tend to use. Whether it’s in a heated game of
Monopoly or over the friendship-ruining game that is Risk, there is always that one cheater in the friend group that tries to pilfer an extra hundred or deploy some extra troops.
But when rules are arbitrarily implemented or grounded in factors that have no basis, then sometimes it might be justified to circumvent these unlawful additions.
Even the excise officials admitted the move by the management is acceptable. A Vijayan IPS, additional excise commissioner said,
There is more... the bar is calling it Snehamathil (wall of love).The verdict, like most of the states was a blow to the booze lovers in Kerala too. But what made the situation worse in state is there was already a ban in place, by which only three-star hotels and above are allowed to serve liquor.
Most of the bars were then converted into beer and wine parlors, which were also forced to shut down after
the SC order. But a bar in Ernakulam district decide to make a way around it, literally! Read on to find out what a bar owner did to reopen his business.
The Aishwarya Bar in North Paravoor, a Kochi suburb has built a 250m-long maze-like walkway to the entrance,theoretically making it more than 500m away from the highway.
"We have done nothing illegal. The plot behind the bar also belongs to the owner and we have constructed an extended way to reach the bar. Now it is 520 metres from the highway. We are set to approach the circle inspector of excise with the new route map to authorize the reopening of the bar," said Shiju P, bar manager.
But when rules are arbitrarily implemented or grounded in factors that have no basis, then sometimes it might be justified to circumvent these unlawful additions.
Even the excise officials admitted the move by the management is acceptable. A Vijayan IPS, additional excise commissioner said,
According to the owners the 10m-wide walkway was completed in three days at a cost of about 1.5 lakh rupees.
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