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The Telangana Government has asserted that determination are nary proposals earlier it to contented permissions to unfastened caller elite bars successful the State.
The Government replied successful the antagonistic to a question connected whether determination is immoderate connection to summation wine shops oregon liquor rates successful the State. Excise and Prohibition Minister, Jupally Krishna Rao, was responding to a query raised by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) members T. Harish Rao, K.P. Vivekanand and P. Kaushik Reddy during the Question Hour successful the Legislative Assembly connected Friday (January 2, 2026).
The BRS members asked astir the fig of loop shops that were closed crossed the State from December 2023, the clip erstwhile the Congress came to power, till date. Interestingly, the Minister said determination was nary explanation for loop shops successful the Excise Act and determination were nary specified entities arsenic loop shops arsenic per the Act.
The Excise section was, however, dealing with unauthorised liquor income successful villages successful accordance with the laws successful unit from clip to time. A full of 11,193 cases were registered for unauthorised merchantability of liquor from December 1, 2023, to December 30, 2025. As galore arsenic 10,871 persons were arrested, and 1.14 lakh litres of liquor, on with 445 vehicles were seized successful the process.
The section was continuously undertaking raids and peculiar enforcement drives to cheque merchantability of liquor from unauthorised premises and was taking enactment arsenic and erstwhile specified violations came to notice.
