The Supreme Court on Thursday modified its earlier order and allowed liquor manufacturers from Bihar to export their old stocks of alcoholic beverages worth over Rs 200 crore outside the State till July 31.
A vacation bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Deepak Gupta passed the order on the application in which the manufacturers had contended that the apex court’s May 29 order spoke about time to destroy the stock but it did not indicate anything about its “export” outside the State.
The manufacturers had told the bench that there were two issues — destruction of old stocks and export — in the plea filed earlier and the apex court’s May 29 order mention only about time to destroy the stock.
After the brief hearing today, the bench said “sufficient grounds have been made out to allow the application” in terms of the prayer seeking clarification of the earlier order.