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A booze ban stresses Indian business

Published Sun, Apr 9, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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Gurgaon, India

WHEN Shailja Singh headed to her favourite bar for a post-work beer this week she found it shut, victim of a Supreme Court ruling that has stopped India's burgeoning alcohol and leisure industries in their tracks.

Thousands of liquor outlets were forced to close on April 1 after the order, which barred the sale of alcohol within a 500-metre range of a highway.

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