The fast growing metropolitan city of India, Indore is now facing problem of law and order problems especially in the night when hundreds of youngsters are on the roads at late nights around 1 O’clock and are in physical and verbal duel at the public places of Indore.
Both the boys and girls are involved in these disputes after heavy drinks. The root cause of this late night brawl between the youngsters is the pubs bars which are functional late nights and are operating late night after their scheduled time of midnight given by government is over. Many times people have to call dial 100 and many times the youngsters are so drunk that the police have to carry them to hospitals or police stations.
Most of the disputes arise at the places where the word Pub is highlighted. The excise controller of Indore district Santosh Singh Kushwaha told The Pioneer that we don’t give permission to pub and no such term exists in Madhya Pradesh excise rules. We give permission to foreign liquor license FL2 bar the FL2 licenses is of 2 types on and off. In on license the customer can have drink and can get food in the bar and in off license the customer can only purchase drink and carry it to his home for drinking but there is no provision of dance in the bars.
The real dispute arise when the few bar owners are using the word Pub which gives a message that there is a facility of liquor food and dance. And that’s why the youngsters are attracted to the places where it is mentioned pub and also maximum disputes takes places in pubs while dancing. Alarmed after the regular disputes by the drunk youngsters and late night closing of these so called pubs Indore DIG Ruchivardhan Mishra has written a letter to the additional commissioner excise Indore after witnessing the decline in the traditional and moral values of Indian culture to get the bars closed on time, installation of CCTV cameras, list of permitted bars in Indore district, Names of the bouncers posted by pub owners in pub, Details of action taken by excise officers in the previous months on the bar pubs which run after closing time, no entry for minors.
Indore collector Lokesh Jatav told The Pioneer that presently we are focusing the timely closing of bar and we give license for sale of liquors and what other activity with the bars are going on we will get it checked. Locals told that the people who are running dance floors attached with the bars naming it as pub should be immediately suspended and the foreign liquor license should be given to those bars that don’t run the dance floor. Indore DIG Ruchivardhan Mishra told that very soon it will be seen that if the dance floor is operating with the bar and according to what rules.