Women ransack liquor shop on city outskirts

Over one hundred women on Tuesday ransacked a country liquor distillery at Pandra under the Mancheswar police limits on the outskirts of the city.Armed with lathis, local women ransacked the shop and destroyed hundreds of liquor bottles. They also set fire to several articles and merchandise at the distillery. The women said male members of their families consume alcohol in the liquor shop and unleash atrocities on other family members, including children.

The women said they were forced to take law into their hands as authorities did not pay any heed to their requests to stop selling of liquor in the locality.An irate woman said they got frustrated over the alcoholic behavior of male members who continued to spend all their income on alcohol neglecting the family. “If the shop is reopened, we will again demolish it. We don’t want a liquor shop here,” she added.