HYDERABAD: Stating that no one has a basic right to engage in liquor trading, a bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N. Tukaramji on Thursday rejected a writ appeal challenging the interim suspension of 12 toddy trade licences.
In its orders, the bench pointed out that when the toddy traded by the appellants was adulterated with diazepam, the State government had rightly cancelled their trading licences.
Earlier, S Raja Goud and S Radha Kishan Goud had filed a case challenging a memo dated December 31, 2022, issued by the Prohibition and Excise department, restoring the appellants’ licences to deal in toddy. A single judge who heard the case suspended the memo based on the findings of the chemical examiner, Regional Prohibition and Excise Laboratory, Nizamabad, that the toddy sold by the appellants was adulterated.