step into most pubs or restobars and you can see underage kids having a good time over a drink though the legal age for consuming liquor in bengaluru is 21 many high schoolgoing children are often spotted frequenting such places bt did a random check on some pubs to find out whether kids were asked for ids or if they were refused liquor for being underage heres what we foundwhat bt didwe chose pubs that are frequented by high school and collegegoers our team of two consisting of a teenager visited the following placespub no 1 termed as one of the most happening pubs among collegegoers we visited this pub on a weekday though the establishment had a notice stating liquor wont be served to guests below 21 years of age we were not asked for any id once seated we ordered a cocktail again we werent asked for any id and consuming alcohol here seemed no problem irrespective of age as we noticed several underage kids being served liquorpub no 2 we visited another popular pub on day 2 once again we were not asked to show an id nor did we have any problem ordering liquor in spite of the same notice holding good here as well on striking a conversation with fellow patrons we realized that some of them were as young as highschoolers and yet were seen chugging down beerpub no 3 though this place had a mix of working professionals as well as collegegoers it wasnt hard to spot underage kids here again meanwhile we ordered for a cocktail and as usual no one asked us for our id or what our age wasaccording to the excise act liquor is not supposed to be served to people below 21 years of agean official from the excise departmentwe dont serve liquor to underage kids say pub representativesonce we realized that these pubs do indeed serve liquor to underage kids we contacted the above mentioned establishments for their side of the story a representative from pub no 1 who didnt wish to be named said that they always checked the ids of all their patrons we always check for the ids if children below the permissible age do try and enter and order for drinks we dont entertain them and ask them to leave he said when informed that team bt had done random checks and had in fact managed to order alcohol without ids he said sometimes we miss and are unable to check for identification when informed that we also found schoolgoers drinking liquor in their establishment the representative maintained that it was impossiblewe noticed that ones looks had a huge part to play representative of pub no 3 said we have a board outside that says liquor wont be served to children below 21 years of age but to be honest we dont check everybodys id card however if someone looks really young then we do ask for their ids stating that they have