It dismissed a petition that had sought the quashing of Section 23 of the act on the ground that it prescribed 25 years as the legal age for buying and drinking alcohol. (Shutterstock)The Delhi Excise Act does not prescribe 25 years as the minimum age for drinking, it merely prohibits liquor sales to people below that age, Delhi High Court ruled on Thursday. “The age of drinking has nothing to do with the prohibition imposed by the Delhi government under the Excise Act. It is a wrong notion in the mind of petitioner.”Lawyers said the Delhi act does not specify any minimum age for drinking. Lawyer Kush Kalra, the petitioner, said the legal age for drinking was 21 in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Telangana and Jharkhand, and 18 in Rajasthan, Sikkim and Puducherry.

Source: The Telegraph September 26, 2019 20:37 UTC