Denial clogs Bihar courts and correctional facilites, agreeing to Nitish’s request and the Chief Justice’s concern.
Until October of this year, state police statistics reveal that 3,48,170; cases are filed and 4,01,855 arrests are made under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. Denial clogs Bihar courts and correctional facilities.
At present, Nitish Kumar, the Chief Serve of Bihar; is on a statewide “Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan” (social change campaign) yatra to raise awareness around alcohol forbiddance. He claimed that those who drink and have an issue with coming to Bihar; due to the need for booze did not have to come. In that address, Chief Equity of India N V Ramana gave a final Sunday; address in which he specified the Bihar denial law as a case of “need to think ahead” in planning laws; which comes about in courts being overburdened with cases and “a straightforward safeguard supplication” taking a year to resolve.
Nitish ignored the fact that after the implementation of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in 2016; courts have overburdened and jails have overcrowded.
Until October of this year; state police statistics reveal that 3,48,170 cases were filed and 4,01,855; arrests were made under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. Approximately 20,000 bail applications related to these cases have been; filed with the Patna High Court and district courts in the state.
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Between January 2020 and November 2021, the Patna High Court disposed; of 19,842 bail pleas (anticipatory and regular) in liquor prohibition cases; bringing the total number of bail pleas disposed to 70,673. Until November, 6,880 bail pleas in such cases were still pending; before the high court, bringing the total number of bail pending cases to 37,381.
Bihar’s 59 jails have a total capacity of around 47,000 inmates. According to jail sources, there are currently roughly 70,000; detainees in these facilities, nearly 25,000 of them were detain under the liquor law.
Since the hooch disasters in Gopalganj and Bettiah in early November; the Bihar police have increased their crackdown on violators of the liquor prohibition. In November alone, approximately 10,000 accused violators are arrested. As a result, jails across the state are becoming increasingly crowded. The Beur Central Jail in Patna has a capacity of roughly 2,400 inmates, however, it is now overcrowded with 5,600.
“Every third or fourth prisoner is an accused under the liquor law,” a jail superintendent remarked. Since 2017, this has been the trend. We had a little break in 2019 and 2020, with most offenders receiving bail; but the number of liquor law violators in jails has been on the rise again.”
“IG (Prisons) may disclose details relating liquor legislation,” Bihar assistant director of police (Headquarters); Jitendra Singh Gangwar informed The Indian Express when contacted for comment. However, IG (Prisons) Mithilesh Mishra was unavailable.
“The conviction rate in liquor cases is less than one per cent,” a home department source stated. However, some 75 special courts are being established to expedite; also the resolution of matters involving the liquor ban and excise law.”
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Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar continues to press for the prohibition of alcohol in Bihar. “The death sentence to 9 persons (this March) by Gopalganj; court in 2016 hooch case teaches a big message to drinkers and traders,” the CM remarked in Gopalganj; on December 24, as part of his ongoing yatra. “If you drink, you will die” (Piyoge to Maroge).