LUCKNOW, Nov. 8 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has asked the excise commissioner to explain how a liquor and beer shop opened within a radius of less than 100-metre of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences in Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar.

The court also asked the excise commissioner to explain what action he took after becoming aware of the matter. The court has fixed November 14 as the next date of hearing. A division bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Prashant Kumar passed the order on November 6 on a petition filed by local resident Dinesh Yadav and others.

Senior advocate Gaurav Mehrotra, representing the petitioners, argued that a licence for an English liquor and beer shop had been granted very c...