The case of nation liquor and a farmer’s slippers

Express News Service

BHOPAL: ‘MP ajab hai, sabse gajab hai,’ the well-known catchline of the Madhya Pradesh authorities’s efforts to harness the state’s monumental vacationer potential may be the apt punchline for 2 weird complaints which have come to the limelight within the Ujjain district of the central Indian state.

While a car car parking zone operator has written to the state’s house minister, looking for motion towards a liquor vend for not getting the ‘kick’ after consuming Desi liquor, one other man in the identical Ujjain district has submitted a criticism to the police over the theft of his slippers price Rs 180.

A personal automotive parking operator Lokendra Sothiya, who has been consuming liquor for the final 15-20 years, will transfer the buyer discussion board in Ujjain on Monday, over failing to get intoxicated by two ‘quarter’ bottles of Desi liquor, which he purchased from licensed liquor vend in Kshirsagar Ghati space of Ujjain on April 12.

Sothiya will carry to the buyer discussion board as proof, the 2 sealed ‘quarter’ bottles of the liquor, which he did not open, after failing to get intoxicated after consuming two different bottles of the identical liquor on April 12.

Sothiya had purchased 4 sealed ‘quarter’ bottles of Desi liquor from the liquor outlet to devour with buddy Nirmal Chourasiya. But on consuming two bottles of the liquor, when he did not get the kick (intoxication), he went to the involved liquor store alleging that the bottles contained water and never liquor.

“The liquor vend staff asked me to go away and dared me to do whatever I can against the vend, after which I complained the matter to the local excise department office and also sent its copy to the state’s home minister Narottam Mishra. I came to know that a team of excise department had visited the concerned liquor outlet and conducted an investigation on Saturday. But with no punitive action having been taken till now against the liquor outlet for selling water in name of the liquor, I’ll move the consumer forum in the matter on Monday,” Bahadurganj (Ujjain) resident  Sothiya advised The New Indian Express on Sunday.

The different weird criticism additionally pertains to Ujjain.

The Khachrod police within the Ujjain district acquired a criticism on May 5, in regards to the theft of a farmer’s slippers.

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The farmer, Jitendra Bagri, a local of Tarod village alleged within the criticism, that his black slippers price Rs 180 had been stolen by somebody from his home on May 4. He feared that the stolen slippers (which he purchased a month again) may very well be utilized by the thief to border him in a theft case after leaving them at another place of theft sooner or later.

The Khachrod police station in-charge Ravindra Yadav, performing on the matter, requested Ashok Katara, the sub-inspector in control of the Chapakheda police outpost to take acceptable motion on the criticism.

While tippler Lokendra Sothiya nonetheless awaits motion towards the liquor outlet whose liquor failed to present him the excessive he was in search of, the small landholding farmer Jitendra Bagri, a lot to his shock bought his slipper again on Saturday.

“I had just informed the police on May 5 about the possibility of my stolen slippers being used to commit some other theft and the thieves leaving them at the other place of theft to get me falsely implicated in the theft case. But much to my surprise, the cops from Chapakheda police chowki found the stolen slippers in a drain and handed over the slippers to me on Saturday,” Jitendra advised TNIE on Sunday.