Home liquor-storage prosecution under Excise Act quashed
Police searched a house in Parkal town and seized branded whisky bottles and beer allegedly stored without approval. The householder was booked under the Excise Act and for disobeying a public-servant order. The High Court quashed the trial-court case.
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How we verify →The trial-court case stands quashed.
What happened
The High Court recorded that a patrol acting on a tip searched a house in Parkal town and found stored liquor bottles said to have been bought from local wine shops without official approval.
The High Court recorded the seizure as branded stock, including Royal Stag bottles in full and half sizes.
Police registered the case under the Excise Act with an additional disobedience count under the penal code.
The High Court allowed the criminal petition and quashed the trial-court proceedings.
What the record says
“Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.132 of 2024 on the file of the Additional Junior Civil Judge, at Parkal, against the petitioner/accused, are hereby quashed.”
Criminal Petition No.8624 of 2026, order dated 07.07.2026 — read the full text
No complaining victim
The act was possessing ordinary branded liquor at home, with no spurious or poisonous drink and no violence alleged.
What we could not confirm
The order excerpt gives bottle counts but the beer count varies between summaries, so only the whisky-bottle sentence is quoted. The district is not printed in the excerpt, so none is given though Parkal town is named.