Fine for drinking in public in Kolkata

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Section 25. Employment of children or women by licensed vendors.— (1) No person who is licensed to sell foreign liquor or country spirit for consumption on his premises shall, during the hours in which such premises are kept open for business, employ or permit to be employed either with or without remuneration any person under the age of twenty-one years, in any part of such premises in which such liquor or spirit is consumed by the public. (2) No person who is licensed to sell foreign liquor or country spirit for consumption on his premises shall, during the hours in which such premises are kept open for business, employ or permit to be employed, either with or without remuneration any woman, in any part of such premises in which such liquor or spirit is consumed by the public Sub-Sees. (3) and (4) omitted by Act 34 of 1965. Section 53. Penalty for consumption in chemist's shop, etc.—(1) If any chemist, druggist, apothecary or keeper of a dispensary allows any intoxicant which has not been bonafide medicated for medicinal purposes to be consumed on his business premises by any person not employed in his business, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or to fine which may extend to three thousand rupees, or to both. (2) If any person not employed as aforesaid consumes any' such intoxicant on such premises, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or to fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or to both. Pentity for failing to produce licence, etc by licensee or his servants.—If any holder of a licence, permit or pass granted under this Act, or any person in his employ and acting on his behalf, fails to produce such licence, permit or pass on the demand of any officer duly empowered by the State Government in this behalf to make such demand shall be liable to fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

Advocate Anamika Pandey LawRato