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SC suspends SHC order to cancels wine shops’ licenses in Sindh

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a Sindh High Court decision to cancel the licenses of 124 wine shops in Sindh on a petition filed against the SHC order.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by  Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard the petitions against the SHC order filed by the owners of wine shops and a leader of Hindu community MNA Ramesh Kumar.

The court while accepting the petitions for hearing remanded back the case to SHC to re-hear the case. The court also ordered the High Court to hear the petitions on day to day basis.

“This order should not be presumed that the Supreme Court has granted permission for the sale of alcohol,” Justice Nisar remarked during the hearing.

Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, the patron of Pakistan Hindu Council and PML-N MNA, who was present during the hearing said, it was not right to “sell alcohol in the name of religion”. “In Hinduism, selling and drinking alcohol is prohibited,” he said.