Response

Generally speaking, you can carry alcohol in Òpersonal consumptionÓ amounts across state lines. … You can save a bundle driving across the state line, even with the taxes. Same goes for states where the drinking age is higher than a neighboring state, especially if there’s a college campus on the Ò21Ó side of the line. The new law makes it a non-bailable offence to carry along more than one sealed bottle of liquor from other neighbouring states and carries a maximum punishment of five years in jail along with a fine of Rs 5,000 or ten times the revenue the state would have earned from the bottles, whichever is higher. WE can not produce the code of law of permission at that time but at the same time police also can not show the law of prohibition. It was stated in the G.O. that a person could have in possession the following maximum quantities of intoxicants at a time without any permit or license with effect from September 25, 2019: IMFL and foreign liquor: three bottles of any size, denatured / methylated spirit: three bulk litres, beer: six bottles of 650 ml . “Any person travelling in a private car or public transport can carry only one liquor bottle and that too with a broken seal. A person caught travelling with a sealed booze bottle is liable for punishment under IPC,” the officer added. … In case of beer or wine, residents can store a case comprising 12 bottles.”

Reference: Criminal Procedure Code

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