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Women ransack liquor shop in Orissa
 KENDRAPARA (Orissa): Intensifying an anti-liquor campaign, a group of agitated women ransacked a foreign liquor shop in Mahalahat village under Patkura police station on Monday, policed said.The women of the village were registering their protest against the opening of the liquor shop since last six months. Earlier, they had picketed in front of the liquor shop and petitioned the block and district level officials. The grouse of village women was that alocoholism had become rampant breaking up families in the village. The all-women-mob, mobilised under self-help-groups, broke opened the shop and later destroyed the liquor bottles. A case has been registered but no arrest made in this connection so far. Posted by: john frum 2008-12-08 |
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