IN PICS: Booze Lovers Throng Outside Liquor Shops As Alcohol Sales Resume; Social Distancing Goes For A Toss!

A man has been arrested with four cartons of illegal foreign imported liquor & 60 boxes of cigarettes in Kalkaji area in Delhi. (Photo: ANI)

Chhattisgarh: Social distancing norms were flouted as people in large numbers queue outside a liquor shop in Rajnandgaon. (Photo: ANI)

"People were not maintaining social distancing at this liquor store, therefore, we have closed it,": Maninder Singh, SHO, Karol Bagh (Photo: ANI)

Chhattisgarh: People lined up outside a liquor shop in Raipur as state government allowed liquor shops to open in the state from today except for the containment zones. (Photo: ANI)

Assam: Liquor and sweet shops open in Guwahati following the revised guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs. (Photo: ANI)

Bengaluru: Police ask customers to follow social distancing rules as they stand in queue to buy liquor from a shop, amid COVID-19 lockdown in Bengaluru, Monday, May 4, 2020. The Karnataka government has permitted the liquor sale between 9 am and 7 pm only in areas that are outside COVID-19 containment zones. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)

Authorities allowed sale of liquor with certain restrictions, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Prayagraj. (PTI Photo)

People purchase alcohol from a wine shop in Lucknow. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)

New Delhi: A customer carries alcohol after purchasing from a wine shop, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Chander Nagar in East Delhi, Monday, May 4, 2020. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)

People queued up in front of liquor shops in several parts of the country after the central government allowed stores in orange and green zones to reopen. (PTI Photo)