ahmedabad overzealous to show how strict they can get on prohibition issue cops in valsad have booked a liquor seller from the union territory of daman where gujarats prohibition laws are not applicablethe liquor seller manoj patel alias manu rushed to gujarat high court as soon as he was implicated in a case of bootlegging this happened when a bootlegger was caught on the national highway with a few imfl bottles he was ferrying liquor on his motorcycle earlier this month during his interrogation he told cops that he had purchased liquor from patels wine shop as soon as patels name was disclosed he was booked under the prohibition actbefore the high court patels advocate hardik dave argued that his client owns a licensed liquor shop in daman which is a union territory and sale and consumption of alcohol is permitted with regulation in this area moreover it is not the wine shop owners lookout who purchases liquor and where he takes the bottles along he cannot be faulted for the deed of his customer who illegally carried alcohol in prohibited territory of gujaratafter preliminary hearing justice jb pardiwala ordered the investigating officer to remain present before the court during next hearing which is posted on january 18earlier the hc has junked such firs that were lodged by cops in south gujarat against damans wine shops in one such case owner of one nikita wine shop in daman was booked under prohibition laws by gandevi poli of navsari district when they caught few tipplers last year in inebriated condition when the tipplers told cops that they had purchased liquor from daman police included shop owners name in fir