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"It has been decided that Guru Granth Sahib cannot be placed in a house or location where liquor bars and substances having ingredients like tobacco, intoxicants and halal meat exist," Akal Takhat Jathedar (head) Gyani Gurbachan Singh said.

In a state where liquor vends are opened even before grocery stores and where 29 crore liquor bottles are consumed annually, residents of 140 villages from various districts, including 43 in Sangrur and 26 in Patiala, have submitted applications to the authorities concerned pleading that the vends in their areas be closed.

Now, a grassroots movement is fighting back. Invoking a little-known law from 1994 that allows local councils to impose prohibition in the areas they control if two-thirds of voters support them, dozens of Punjab villages are trying to shut down such shops.