The meeting also deliberated on the option to knock on the doors of the Supreme Court against the High Court order, quashing the April 5 notification on liquor ban, saying it was ultra vires to the Constitution.
In a judgment, a bench of Chief Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh quashed the April 5 notification of the state government banning consumption and sale of alcohol in the state.
The same bench had, on May 20, reserved its order on a batch of writ petitions filed by Liquor Trade Association and numerous individuals, challenging the liquor law in Bihar brought by the Nitish Kumar government with stringent penal provisions.
The Grand Secular Alliance government had first banned manufacture, trade, sale and consumption of country-made liquor since April 1 but later, imposed a blanket ban on all types of liquor, including foreign liquor, in the state.
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The Chief Minister has now called the meeting of the state Cabinet on October 2 in which an amended liquor law, passed by both Houses of the state legislature and consented to by the Governor, is likely to be approved for notification with an aim to continue with prohibition in the state.
Anjani Kumar Singh confirmed that the Cabinet would be meeting on October 2.
JD(U) state president Basistha Narayan Singh and senior minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan also attended the meeting.
"We are not satisfied with today's court order...The option of going to the Supreme Court against it is available to us," Lalit Kishore told PTI after the meeting.
"We will study the 150-page judgment to decide on the next course of action, including the option to move the apex court," he added.