In dry Gujarat a local court in Surat punished drunkards to contribute in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India mission by giving them task to clean the New Civil Hospital as well as other prominent Government hospital buildings.
On Thursday late in the night, Surat police nabbed as many as 11 youngsters in inebriated condition during routine checking as they were returning from a booze party.
The police produced them before the Surat District Court on the charge of consuming liquor without having permit. After hearing police as well as their medical reports the court found some of them addicted to alcohol. Finally the judge decided to punish them differently and ordered them to clean Government hospital buildings in the diamond city Surat including the newly constructed Civil Hospital.
Following the court order a letter in this regard was sent to Resident Medical Officer of New Civil hospital instructing him that he should assign cleaning task to accused. Sources in the police department said that there is adequate task of cleaning Government hospital buildings and in case more number of drunkards would be nabbed in coming days they all would be sent for the same sort of punishment.
“Because of such punishment, illegal consumption of liquor would be decrease as the accused would not only lose social prestige but they would have to join in cleanliness work in public,” said a senior police official backing the approach of Surat district court.