India
Unamended Entries of List II (State List)
Entries as Amended
8. Intoxicating liquors, that is to say, the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase ... sale of intoxicating liquors.
Same as before
51. Duties of excise on the following goods manufactured or produced in the State and countervailing duties
person with blood alcohol
concentration of 150-300 mg% would be intoxicated,
as per Lyon's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology,
11th Edition, page ... private vehicle drives or
attempts to drive, in a state of intoxication and causes
death (not amounting to culpable homicide) or injury due to
such
licence for the
sale or manufacture of liquor or of any intoxicating drug under
this Act,
(a) mixes or permits to be mixed with ... liquor or
intoxicating drug, sold or manufactured by him, any drug, other
than a noxious drug or any foreign ingredient likely
laws relating to the import, export, transport, manufacture, sale and possession of intoxicating liquors and intoxicating drugs and to authorise the State Government to prohibit ... import, export, transport, manufacture, sale and possession of the liquors and intoxicating drugs in Uttar Pradesh or in any specified area or areas thereof
production, manufacture, possession, import, export, transport, purchase and sale of liquor and intoxicating drugs and the levy of duties of excise thereon, in the Union ... under this Act; (6) "excisable article" means- (a) any liquor; (b) any intoxicating drug; (c) opium; or (d) other narcotic drugs, narcotics and non-narcotic
introduce and extend the prohibition of the manufacture, sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors in the drugs in the State of Orissa. Whereas ... production, manufacture, possession, export, import, transport, purchase, sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors and drugs in the State of Orissa; It is hereby enacted
excisable article" means, any alcoholic liquor for human consumption ; or any intoxicating drug; (10) "excise duty" or "countervailing duty" means the duty of excise ... other law for the time being in force relating to intoxicating liquors or intoxicating drugs; (13) "excise tree" includes the tree of mohwa, coconut, palm
each packet containing 6 strips,
each stripe contained 24 capsules, total 7200 intoxicating capusules,
15 packets of Avl and each packet containing 24 injections total ... connected cases 6
intoxicating injections and 6 packets Norgesic each packet contained
5 injections, total 30 intoxicating injections and 50 bottles of Redicoff
without
liable, if the person
driving the vehicle, was under the influence of
intoxicating liquor, or drugs. The State
Commission rejected the complaint of the
respondent ... establish that the driver of the vehicle was
under the influence of intoxicating liquor
within the meaning of the Exclusion Clause, as
aforesaid
them can cover the present case.
4. Entry 8 reads thus:
8. Intoxicating liquors, that is to say, the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase ... sale of intoxicating liquOrs.
The learned Counsel challenged the correctness of the judgment impugned in the civil appeals and the special leave petitions. According