The Sion-Panvel highway is part of the NH-4. FILE PIC

While the eastern and western express highways may soon be spared from the Supreme Court's highway liquor ban after the MMRDA proposed to take over their maintenance from the Public Works Department (PWD), hotel and bar owners on the Sion-Panvel highway might continue to suffer under it, as the stretch falls on the National Highway 4, which is being maintained by PWD.