the citys pubs restaurants and dhabas have been taking a beating of late surprise checks on these establishments have become the talk of town much to the dismay and disappointment of restaurateurs and patrons but the district administration has its reasons for the crackdown these eateries are operating and serving beverages beyond the permissible time limit they claim we get both sides of the storywe have concrete reasons for our checkswhen we asked the district administration for reasons on why they have been conducting these surprise checks arun rathore the public relations officer of the district administration says the permissible time limit for these restaurants to serve liquor is strictly till midnight this includes hosting events and playing music most pubs arent abiding by these norms many of them also dont have relevant licenses to offer these servicessubdivisional magistrate anil banwariya of sanwer indore adds surprise checks have been carried out at over 10 pubs in the last two months because they have been serving liquor beyond the time permitted there was also a crackdown on around 40 dhabas that were serving alcohol without a license a penalty is charged from these establishmentstheres a way to conduct checks say restaurant ownersritesh chaudhary who runs a leading food and beverage joint in the city believes that these checks need to carried out following certain decorum he says the administration need not send 10 cops who barge into the restaurant from different entrances i think these checks can be carried out without sensationalising them with a limited number of officials ritesh at whose joint a surprise check was recently conducted believes that they can put the restaurants image in a bad lightjagdish makhija owner of a citybased tavern that the administration inspected recently had this to add a number of cops turn up and often create a state of panic among our patrons with these checks recently the police arrived at the tavern at around 12301245 am by that time half of the guests had left they found one or two odd revellers sipping on their wine we strictly take our last order at 1130 pm but we do not believe is rushing our patrons to finish their food and drink by midnightwhat do patrons have to saynaman khandelwal who was having dinner at a restaurant when the surprise check began there says these inspections cause a lot of inconvenience to people who arent flouting the norms we had to leave our meal in between another patron shazia sheikh added we compare ourselves to metros in all other aspects then why not have similar deadlines as themif the administration has laid certain norms and deadlines it should be strictly adhered to but at the same time like other bigger cities the permissible time to operate and serve liquor should be extended we urge for a revision of the deadline sumit suri chairman hotel and restaurant association of western india