COMMON ORDER

[Order of the Court was made by S.M.SUBRAMANIAM, J.]

The present batch of writ petitions have been instituted seeking either to close down the Recreation Clubs, which are recently mushrooming in the urban and rural areas or not to grant FL-2 licence to run liquor shops in the name of Recreation Clubs.

2. The large scale complaints placed before this Court show that numerous Recreation Clubs are registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act , 1975, and those Recreation Clubs are running only liquor shops and selling liquors to not only the members, but also to the non- members. In the State of Tamil Nadu, retail vending liquor shops are being run only by the TASMAC, a fully State-owned Corporation and no license has been granted to the private individuals to run retail liquor shops. Since licenses are not granted to run liquor shops, the private individuals are registering Recreation Clubs under the , 1975 and by obtaining FL2 license, they are running liquor shops alone, which is causing not only inconvenience to the residents residing in that locality, road users etc., but such Recreation Clubs are allowing the persons to involve in certain offenses ins