allahabad a division bench of the allahabad high court on thursday vacated the interim order of status quo granted earlier in the several writ petitions against allotment of liquor shops by the excise department through lottery system it has made clear that it would be open to the state government to allot the liquor shops in question either in favour of the petitioners or other parties as ad hoc arrangement the judges said that the final order of the court would be abided by the parties chief justice sk sen and justice vm sahai of the high court passed this order on several writ petitions wherein allottment process of foreign liquor country liquor and beer shops through lottery system by the excise department have challenged in the writ petitions the chief standing counsel of the state informed the court that 1059 writ petitions have been filed in the allahabad high court including its lucknow bench challenging the allot ment process in some of the writ petitions excise policy 2002 have also been challenged whereby allotment of liquor shops by lottery system have been made the court earlier on the writ petitions had passed an interim order of status quo in favour of the petitioners as the petitioners had said that their licences for shops have not been renewed it may be recalled that lucknow bench of the allahabad high court has dismissed the several writ petitions pertaining to the allot ment of the shops by the excise department the petitioners counsels here informed the court that the order of the lucknow bench is not with them therefore the hearing of the case be adjourned till next thursday april 25