The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) to ensure that bill books are maintained in every retail liquor shop run by it across the State and that consumers are issued bills for every bottle of liquor they purchase. He wanted the recovered money to go into government coffers, and the salesmen, supervisors, and managers of all those retail shops to be subjected to disciplinary action for having indulged in the malpractice of collecting excess amounts from customers. Responding to the writ petition, TASMAC standing counsel K. Sathish Kumar told the court that five out of the 30 shops mentioned by the writ petitioner had been closed down. The documents produced before the court, in compliance with the direction, revealed that the retail liquor shops were maintaining details regarding opening balance, inward bottles, sold-out bottles, and the amount of money collected from the customers. Disapproving of the practice of not issuing bills for the liquor bottles sold at the shops, the judge ordered that all TASMAC retail shops in the State must issue bills for every bottle of liquor sold by them and that customers must be made to stand in a queue outside the shops while purchasing the bottles.