India, Feb. 18 -- The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) audit report on Delhi's liquor policy between 2017 and 2022 flagged multiple violations in quality control, licensing, pricing, and systemic enforcement failures within the system, according to officials familiar with the findings of the agency.

The audit covers three years under the old excise policy and one under the now-scrapped 2021-22 iteration of the excise policy and highlights notional financial losses to the exchequer exceeding Rs.2,000 crore.

To be sure, the report, titled "Performance Audit on Regulation and Supply of Liquor in Delhi," was submitted in March 2024. However,despite court intervention, it was not tabled in the Delhi assembly along with 13 other CAG re...