And conducting state-wide raids on bootleggers. But not only will this zeal predictably die down, it misdiagnoses the problem. Economic logic dictates that where there is demand, a market will materialise. Prohibition only serves to drive it underground, evident from ample availability of safe liquor for better off classes in Gujarat and Bihar. This lucrative parallel economy, which engenders corruption and criminal rackets, is far more socially harmful than legal drinking. Alongside are strange bureaucratic systems like Gujarat that carve out permits for liquor consumption. The continuance of this farce puts citizens who can legitimately drink elsewhere in the country under unnecessary risk of criminalisation. Not surprisingly, there are those like BJP neta Khumansinh Vansia who believe scrapping prohibition will be a smart policy for BJP in Gujarat. Prohibition cases are also jamming courts, taking precious judicial time away from other crimes. A staggering 30 lakh Prohibition Act cases are pending trial nationally. In 2020, 25% of criminal cases registered under special acts and local laws were prohibition cases 5.6 lakh cases. Gujarat accounted for nearly half. There also the point that revenues from liquor sales can support state exchequers instead of enriching criminals. No one stopping governments from issuing advisories on liquor consumption. But letting adults be if they wish to drink is an infinitely superior policy to pushing them to hooch because they can legally drink. An actor poses nude for a magazine photoshoot. As is inevitable with social media, photos circulate. As is inevitable too with social media, some people say they are offended. There the matter should have ended. But Ranveer Singh, the actor, is now booked by Mumbai police, for obscenity. This is utterly absurd and what is even more absurd and dangerous is that no one with the power to correct this absurdity is And conducting state-wide raids on bootleggers. But not only will this zeal predictably die down, it misdiagnoses the problem. Economic logic dictates that where there is demand, a market will materialise. Prohibition only serves to drive it underground, evident from ample avail And conducting state-wide raids on bootleggers. But not only will this zeal predictably die down, it misdiagnoses the problem. Economic logic dictates that where there is demand, a market will materialise. Prohibition only serves to drive it underground, evident from ample availability of safe liquor for better off classes in Gujarat and Bihar. This lucrative parallel economy, which engenders corruption and criminal rackets, is far more socially harmful than legal drinking. Alongside are strange bureaucratic systems like Gujarat that carve out permits for liquor consumption. The continuance of this farce puts citizens who can legitimately drink elsewhere in the country under unnecessary risk of criminalisation. Not surprisingly, there are those like BJP neta Khumansinh Vansia who believe scrapping prohibition will be a smart policy for BJP in Gujarat. Prohibition cases are also jamming courts, taking precious judicial time away from other crimes. A staggering 30 lakh Prohibition Act cases are pending trial nationally. In 2020, 25% of criminal cases registered under special acts and local laws were prohibition cases 5.6 lakh cases. Gujarat accounted for nearly half. There also the point that revenues from liquor sales can support state exchequers instead of enriching criminals. No one stopping governments from issuing advisories on liquor consumption. But letting adults be if they wish to drink is an infinitely superior policy to pushing them to hooch because they can legally drink. An actor poses nude for a magazine photoshoot. As is inevitable with social media, photos circulate. As is inevitable too with social media, some people say they are offended. There the matter should have ended. But Ranveer Singh, the actor, is now booked by Mumbai police, for obscenity. Thi