Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs
- Recently, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer used soft policing to crack down on illegal hooch distilleries in Solapur (Maharashtra).
- Hooch is made when ‘country alcohol’ or cheap distilled liquor (desi daru) is adulterated with industrial alcohol or methanol to increase its intoxicating potency.
- National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data show that 6,172 people died between 2016 and 2020 due to the consumption of illicit hooch in India
Responsibilities of Different Stakeholders involved in Such Operations
- Implement the constitutional values by endeavouring for prohibition (Article 47).
- Maintain impartiality in taking legal actions against the culprits.
- Be transparent and uphold rule of law in investigations.
- Maintain fairness in decision making and determining the accountability of mishaps.
District Magistrate:
- Maintaining nonpartisanship and probity in bringing perpetrators to justice no matter how powerful they might be.
- Show empathy towards the victims and their families.
Police:
- Curb the illegal liquor trade with an unbiased attitude
- To maintain nonpartisanship in discharge of their duty by not sidelining or exonerating the politicians.
- Maintaining integrity while delivering duty.
- Be accountable for its omissions and commissions.
- Rectitude of dereliction duties.
- Elimination of corruption, promoting honesty in discharge of duties.
Media:
- Be responsible and liable for their reports.
- Being one of the pillars of democracy it is their duty to report the truth fearlessly but objectively.
SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT
