State Of Rajasthan & Ors vs Anil Kumar Sunil Kumar & Party & Anr

The Supreme Court held that the Rajasthan Excise Rules, 1956, specifically Rules 67(I) and 67(K), along with Rule 3 of the Rajasthan Foreign Liquor (Grant of Wholesale Trade and Retail Licence) Rules, 1982, govern the grant of exclusive privilege licenses for liquor sales. The Court ruled that the petitioners, having submitted the highest tender, were entitled to operate in the Sirohi group of shops, and that the refusal to allow them to open sub-shops in Abu Road and Mount Abu was unjustified. The Court declared the renewal of licenses to M/s Ganganagar Sugar Mills as illegal, thereby upholding the petitioners' rights to operate in the specified areas.