The Distilled Spirits Council, the Washington-based trade group for liquor manufacturers, says it has participated in half a dozen local elections, providing some combination of financial assistance and economic data.

Bankers, doctors, lawyers, stockholders, and liquor manufacturers were excluded because they were considered unproductive members of society.

Authorities in the local health department suspected that the makers of the fake liquor blended industrial alcohol and rice wine, and closed several unlicensed liquor manufacturers.

The club, which then had a liquor manufacturer on a spending spree as main sponsor, engaged Zebec in search of better times.

In 2001, during an income tax raid on a liquor manufacturer in Bhopal, income tax authorities seized a diary maintained by the distillery's owners.

Even though the issue is not likely to be decided this year, an odd array of opponents - from preachers to liquor manufacturers - are working to derail it.

Ms. Young, 39, was recently selected by the liquor manufacturer as one of 50 youngish, accomplished New Yorkers, a "Do-er."

The suit alleges that liquor manufacturers have a duty to warn consumers that drinking during pregnancy can lead to birth defects.

Radico Khaitan formerly known as Rampur Distillery is one of India's oldest and largest liquor manufacturers which was established in 1943.

Marketing reasons drive much of the interest in co-opting the name of the liquor manufacturers.