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The Inside Story: Evils of illicit liquor
Programme: The Inside Story
Programme: The Inside Story
Reporters: Avinash Tuljhapurkar in Delhi, Chayan Kundu in Kolkata
Telecast: Sunday 9:30 pm
Repeat telecast: Wednesday 2:30 am & Saturday 12:30 pm
Visual inputs: Shruti Sharma
Adaptation: Jigme Palden Pazo
In this week’s episode, The Inside Story shatters the veil of secrecy around the trade in illicit liquor rampant in various states. Going into the illegal ‘Bhattis’ which is the source for the liquor, the team was able to gain insights from people involved in the business.
At the other end of the spectrum, are the victims and their families who are trapped in the vicious grip of illicit liquor, whose plight and agony has been documented in the episode.
On a visit to Nadia, a district in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, the Inside Story team discovered entire families engaged in this trade. The liquor is concocted here and sold to major potential buyers who in turn use their distribution network to sell it at handsome profits.
In Bulandshahar in UP, the Inside Story made a trip to the village of Shanshiagarhi to find the trade flourishing here as well. Illicit liquor is prepared and filled into cans without the slightest fear of the police, Excise Dept or any other authority.
In the capital Delhi, the team resorted to the use of hidden cameras in public places where drinking liquor is supposedly banned but not in practice, despite all the claims of the authorities and police. Consumption of liquor inside cars parked in public places and roadside barbeques has grown into a menace in the capital city.
Though liquor shops are officially meant to close by 9 pm, it’s an open secret that it is readily available at various outlets in the city. To prove this point, the team was actually able to buy liquor from one of these outlets, which was located, ironically enough right in front of a police station, at midnight.
The liquor mafia is said to exercise power to such an extent that anybody speaking out against them, is silenced.
Deaths due to illicit liquor consumption has been hitting newspaper headlines in the country with alarming regularity, yet the notorious business seems to carry on unabated. Authorities including the police, the concerned departments and the governments themselves, tend to look the other way, turning a blind eye, while lives continue to be threatened and families torn apart.
Reporters: Avinash Tuljhapurkar in Delhi, Chayan Kundu in Kolkata
Telecast: Sunday 9:30 pm
Repeat telecast: Wednesday 2:30 am & Saturday 12:30 pm
Visual inputs: Shruti Sharma
Adaptation: Jigme Palden Pazo
In this week’s episode, The Inside Story shatters the veil of secrecy around the trade in illicit liquor rampant in various states. Going into the illegal ‘Bhattis’ which is the source for the liquor, the team was able to gain insights from people involved in the business.
At the other end of the spectrum, are the victims and their families who are trapped in the vicious grip of illicit liquor, whose plight and agony has been documented in the episode.
On a visit to Nadia, a district in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, the Inside Story team discovered entire families engaged in this trade. The liquor is concocted here and sold to major potential buyers who in turn use their distribution network to sell it at handsome profits.
In Bulandshahar in UP, the Inside Story made a trip to the village of Shanshiagarhi to find the trade flourishing here as well. Illicit liquor is prepared and filled into cans without the slightest fear of the police, Excise Dept or any other authority.
In the capital Delhi, the team resorted to the use of hidden cameras in public places where drinking liquor is supposedly banned but not in practice, despite all the claims of the authorities and police. Consumption of liquor inside cars parked in public places and roadside barbeques has grown into a menace in the capital city.
Though liquor shops are officially meant to close by 9 pm, it’s an open secret that it is readily available at various outlets in the city. To prove this point, the team was actually able to buy liquor from one of these outlets, which was located, ironically enough right in front of a police station, at midnight.
The liquor mafia is said to exercise power to such an extent that anybody speaking out against them, is silenced.
Deaths due to illicit liquor consumption has been hitting newspaper headlines in the country with alarming regularity, yet the notorious business seems to carry on unabated. Authorities including the police, the concerned departments and the governments themselves, tend to look the other way, turning a blind eye, while lives continue to be threatened and families torn apart.