On August 14, 2025, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized the consumption of alcohol in an historic judgment that struck down a 2007 Kerala Government Order (G.O. (P) No. 25/2007/TD, notified as S.R.O. No. 145/2007, dated February 14, 2007), that had, among other things, restricted the ethyl alcohol content of natural fermentation of coconut toddy to 8.1% v There had been large scale prosecutions under Rule 9(2) of the Kerala abkari shops ( Disposal in Auction ) Rules 2002 on toddy above a cock of a limit as commanded in the order. In the course of the litigation, the Supreme Court, on May 1, 2024, ordered the Kerala government to reconsider the scientific reasoning behind the usage of the 8.1% limit. As a counter, the State constituted an Expert Committee, which advised an increase to 8.98 % v/v 15.56 °C, on the basis of widespread trials in regional labs. Thereafter, on July 16, 2025, Kerala released a fresh Government Order following the expert panel's suggestion. Based on the findings of the committee and the modified G.O., the Supreme Court called off all the prosecutions under the 2007 limit altogether and officially overruled the previous government order.