RAJKOT: You want to get a high, call up your bootlegger and get the supply of Indian-made foreign liquor at your doorsteps. This may appear as easy as getting bottles of milk delivered at homes for many of those Bacchus lovers living in the cities. But not in
Virpur
village any more.
In Virpur village of
Himmatnagar
taluka, the village panchayat on Monday afternoon took a decision that if anyone is caught selling, buying or consuming liquor, he would be nabbed by villagers and handed over to the police.
"It is a collective decision of the villagers, especially women, who suffer the most at the hands of their alcoholic husbands, who pick up fights with them, beat them up and their children after getting drunk, rob them of their household money and even sell off jewellery and utensils to quench their thirst for liquor," Virpur village panchayat sarpanch
Faruq Khanusia
said.
Khanusia said Virpur was in the grip of liquor menace and it was being sold, bought and drunk everywhere. "In such a situation, women of the village made a representation before the panchayat and expressed their anguish. As the liquor is prohibited in the state where
Mahatma Gandhi was born, it is as illegal in Virpur as it is elsewhere. Hence, the panchayat decided to lend support to the cause of women and impose a blanket ban on the trade and consumption of liquor," Khanusia said.
"The panchayat has decided to install
CCTV
cameras at various places in the village to nab those who flout the prohibition law. Those found trading liquor or consuming it will be caught and handed over to Himmatnagar rural police station," he added.
Start a Conversation
Post comment