Customs Baggage - Liquor for Children?
IT seems recently some thirty school students from UP went on education tour to Singapore. While returning, at the IGI Airport some of these children bought liquor from the duty free shop at the airport - at the insistence of their parents.
Are children allowed to bring liquor in their baggage?
Writing in our columns seven years ago - Duty-free liquor for children?, V. Unnikrishnan remarked, "the free allowance of Alcoholic liquor upto 2 litres and 200 Cigarettes are permissible even for children and ladies since there is no exclusion clause. But here it is also pertinent to note that as per Union Health Ministry's guidelines both Liquor and Cigarettes are not to be sold to Children below 18 years. This also may be explicitly made clear in the Baggage Rules,1978. Hence the baggage allowance as well as sales from the Duty Free Shops are also to be regulated accordingly.”
Maybe liquor sale to children can be stopped at the duty free shops in the airports, but what can be done if the children carry liquor bottles from abroad?