Supreme Court today rejected a plea seeking a ban on liquor across the country claiming that it caused death, health problems, rise in crime graph and financial loss to the people. <br/><br/>The top court has found no merit in the plea and also imposed 1 lakh rupees as costs on the petitioner NGO Chaitanya Sravanthi, a Vishakhapatnam-based organisation. <br/><br/>A bench of justices R F Nariman and Navin Sinha directed that the amount has to be deposited with the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee within four weeks.<br/><br/>In the plea, the petitioner said that the ill-effects of consuming alcoholic beverages are contrary to the Right to Life enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution, besides being contrary to the fundamental principles of governance under Article 37 and 47 of the Directive Principles of State Policy.<br/><br/>