Women vandalize unauthorised country liquor shop in Khordha

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KalingaTV News Network

Khordha: A group of women vandalized an unauthorised liquor shop and destroyed hundreds of country liquor bottles worth over lakh, during an anti-liquor drive in Jatni fish market under Jatni Police Station area in the district on Friday.

As many as 50 members of a local women group marched in a protest rally against illegal hoarding and selling of country liquor in Jatni this morning. The angry protesters resorted to sloganeering against the district administration and police for their alleged dilly dallying in taking action against these liquor traders. Later they reached the fish market and tried to break into a liquor shop.

A scuffle erupted between the angry women and the Jatni Police for quite some time in the market after they intervened in the matter.

Later the protesters brought out a number of liquor cartons kept in the shop and destroyed them on the road.

Police have detained a number of women in the incident and are trying to maintain law and order in the market.

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