Home delivery of alcohol; government contradicts itself
Maharashtra government is planning to commemorate Gandhiji on his 150th birth anniversary in a very special way. The government has planned to initiate door delivery of alcohol soon. Excise minister has even issued a statement in this regard. Maharashtra will have the rare distinction of having started something so exquisite among civil services for the first time in the nation. Chief minister Fadnavis has decided to launch this since he does not have anything novel to impress upon people. He has even given a humanitarian reason to his decision. He says that have been many accidents involving drunk people in the recent times. Hence this measure would help check the number of those accidents. Because alcohol has been the main culprit in many incidents.
So you must understand this measure is not to increase alcohol sales but to check the number of accidents. The government will supply alcohol on the same lines as vegetables and groceries so that people save their precious lives owing to this scheme. Maharashtra government has reached the pinnacle of self discipline. It has camouflaged it's bad economic condition that has to be improved by alcohol sales. This measure will not reduce the number of people who will drink and still drive the cars home. The government still not explained what stops people from buying alcohol carrying at home in their own vehicles. With this measure bars will remain bars and homes will also become bus.
The rate of crime may increase instead of coming down. On one hand states like Bihar have been an example for the whole country to follow by banning sale of alcohol. Chief Minister of Bihar has said the rate of crime has come down ever since alcohol was banned in the state. Many states are planning to implement this ban in order to bring down crime and increase efficiency of civic services.
But the Maharashtra government is working in totally opposite direction. RSS has not opened its mouth regarding regularization of sale of alcohol in this manner though BJP speaks as if it is the only agency to uphold the culture of this country. RSS may have considered this as a reestablishment of Dharma because even the Gods and Goddesses consumed alcohol according to Puranas. All over the world, alcohol is one of the chief contributors of rising number of accidents. Can we ever imagine the drivers not to drink when we reach alcohol right to their homes?
In clear terms, only if we ban the sale alcohol, can we stop the drivers from consuming alcohol and driving their vehicles. Keeping the bars and arrack shops open and supplying alcohol directly to homes we can never bring down the rate of alcohol consumption or the rate of crime and accidents. Home delivery of alcohol is bound to have a negative effect on families and relationships within the families. Women will be the biggest victims of this illogical measure. Wives and children will wear heavy brunt on their lives with this. Children can see their parents drinking openly at home, which was an activity that used to happen behind closed doors earlier. This may have negative psychological impact and children may take to drinking sooner than later. excise department which is the biggest contributor to State's exchequer may still reap benefit.Through this the Maharashtra government is saying the Welfare of the society is really not its responsibility. State governments are taking shortcuts to compensate for the bad economical phase the country is passing through. By hook or by crook, they have to fill the coffers of the state's treasury.
As a result of this, Maharashtra government has given steep targets to officers and excise contractors. Which is why this novel idea of home delivery of alcohol seems to have come in their heads. The government which should have thought of novel ways of supplying wheat, rice, do, oil to people's homes has taken up upon itself the responsibility of supplying them with alcohol. When people talk about subsidies the government disease dismisses the stocks as anti developmental talks but now on the government here is criticism about home supply of alcohol it questions about how the government should keep the economy running, if not in this manner.
Looks like the government savita position where they have to run there so by regular rising sale alcohol and brothels or prostitution houses.Is unfortunate at the government laptop bottles of alcohol has come down to home delivering it for its own existence. The government needs to remember something. This measure may bring it some revenue. But this will be a major contributing factor for peoples ill health, economic distress and families breaking up. State's social fabric will suffer as the sale alcohol increases.
This will also contribute to the breaking down of moral consciousness among people. The sale of alcohol will have to be compensated with more than double the expenses on getting people health on track, and getting socio economic situation at a good level. No country is should be forced to run it show by the sale of alcohol. Let those days never descend upon us.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
