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Lahan. - Before the Amending Act 1973 the term Lahan used to be defined on common understanding as to be merely a solution of gm added with some fermenting agent, undergoing the process of fermentation and was fit for distillation. In the definition of liquor under Section 3(14) 'Lehan' has been include as a liquor. On the other hand in definition of 'country liquor' it has been included as to be the country liquor vide the Punjab Excise Liquor Definitions, 1954 published on 10.7.1954. Possession of Lahan has been made an offence by the State of Punjab by Act No. 36 of 1973 while including the same to the definition of liquor. The Excise Officers may not confuse the meaning of Lahan with many other substances prepared specially by the rural people for their domestic use. For example they usually prepared energetic substances for their animals and sometimes for themselves also with the help of solution of gur alongwith other vegetation added to it. Sometime some fermenting agent was also added to it, but every such solution cannot be treated as Lahan as has been defined under this Act. The Excise Officers have to take care of such customary and basic necessities of these who cannot ~ford to approach the air conditioned clinics and veterinaries, but can save lives of their people and their animals with the help of such solutions or substances. If the mixture had only been water and gur, the resulting substance could not be said to be Lahan; but once the fermenting agent was added to it does not matter how recently the mixture had been made before it was recovered and the substance was held to be lahan within the meaning of the definition contained in Para A-2 Chapter 1 of Vol. II of the Punjab Excise Manual. The possession of Lahan has been made an offence so far as the State of Punjab is concerned by Act 36 of 1973. Lahan has been included in the definition of intoxicant. Lahan is a substance which contains gm and to which an agent which may lead to f added. Conviction for lahan can be ordered if all the ingredients of the Lahan are present in the vessel and they are recovered from the accused or in other words the mixture is ready for fermentation wl1ch would inevitably follow then. It is totally immaterial that the mixture is of the recent origin The mixture of water and gm may not be Lahan. But if an agent responsible for fermentaion is added it may become so. ILR 1957 Punjab 238.