Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has filed a writ petition in the High Court after the Madhya Pradesh Government did not heed its directive to remove liquor shops close to densely populated areas in the State.
The petition would be heard after the summer vacation of the court, in June. The MPHRC has made the State government and the Excise Commissioner as parties in the petition.
Acting chairman of MPHRC, Justice AK Saxena, had recommended to the State government on September 27, 2012 to remove all liquor shops near densely populated localities in the State by issuing fresh notification within two months in place of the existing one of June 7, 2001, the Commission PRO Rohit Mehta said on Thursday.
As the Government did not act, the Commission filed a writ petition which would come up for hearing next month, he said.
The commission had taken the initiative after residents of Comfort Plaza and Gomti Colony in Nehru Nagar locality here had complained that drunkards had become a nuisance, especially for women, he said.
The Commission also praised Wara gram-panchayat in Balaghat district which recently decided to remove a liquor shop taking cognizance of its recommendations.
Mehta added that the Commission was planning to move the High Court in other matters related to
violation of human
rights of masses, such as farmers’ suicide, malnutrition, etc, whenever its recommendations go unheeded or the Commission has not received action taken report from the Government.