Chandigarh, March 28 -- A day after the Punjab and Haryana high court stayed the operation of all liquor vends in Chandigarh from April 1 over liquor contractors' claims of "a single family" securing 90% of the vends at a recent e-auction in violation of the 2025-26 UT excise policy, UT administration has now decided to move the Supreme Court against the stay.

According to officials familiar with the matter, UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria has approved the file for challenging the stay before the top court and the petition will now be filed on Friday.

During the hearing on Wednesday, the high court had stayed the operation of all liquor vends in Chandigarh from April 1. It effectively means that none of the total 96 vends auctioned...