Mumbai: Maharashtra government is planning to modify rules on liquor consumption including allowing a permit holder to keep 12 bottles of alcohol at home against the existing two as it feels that these steps would help curb deaths due to sale of spurious alcohol.

Under the present rules, a person in the state also needs a day's permit to consume alcohol at a bar or any other public place (permit room) but the government is mulling doing away with this system too. State Excise Minister Eknath Khadse said the government is likely to issue a notification next month to modify the existing law.