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Wine shops causing hell of a mess to people
With wine shops cropping up in every nook and corner of the city and people indulging in irresponsible drinking, the nuisance that follows drunkards is becoming quite common.
Hema Nagar: With wine shops cropping up in every nook and corner of the city and people indulging in irresponsible drinking, the nuisance that follows drunkards is becoming quite common. In this regard, two wine shops namely Priya Resturant and Bar and Vijay Durga Wine Shop here have been causing problems to residents and commuters; women and children are the most affected by it.
Deepthi, an Intermediate student lamented, “We are scared to return to our homes, because we have to cross the area in front of the wine shop. The boys and men drink to the core and when they see us, they start doing dirty things, which cannot be said in words decent enough to print.”
Kiran, a B com student added, “We cannot even think of going out after 4pm. On holidays, if I want to go out with my friends, my parents do not allow me because drunkards are sitting out on the street.”
While street sexual harassment is rampant, another problem that has emerged is the shops are attracting youngsters towards drinking.
Lakshmi, a housewife shared, “Teenagers and schoolchildren are getting into drinking. In spite of there being a police outpost in front of the wine shop, no officers are stationed there for over months now.”
P Chandrasekhar, an iron shop owner shared, “For security purposes, CCTVs were installed by the police officers, but they are not working now. There is no police station for two to four kilometres from here; we do not know where do we go to report the issue.”
It seems that the problems have cropped only after the area came under the jurisdiction of the GHMC. Murali, a private sector employee said, “We did not have such a kind of problem three years back, when this area was the Panchayati Raj body.”
When contacted, Uppal police station SHO (Station House Officer) Narsing Rao refuted the claims and said that the problem was not ‘much of an issue’. “The police outpost at Hema Nagar has been closed for the last two years. I do not have enough forces to deploy a team there. The issue regarding the wine shop that has been reported is not that alarming. There are patrolling teams from my division going to that area now and then and we have not seen anything out of the ordinary,” he said.
