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What doesn’t make sense is the behavior of people in India. When the local government loosened the closure, residents lined up to buy liquor (alcohol). As a result, the police moved and beat them.
Reported AFP, written Wednesday (06/05/2020), local police beat residents with lathi, hard bamboo sticks. Residents are queuing to buy alcoholic beverages for the first time in 40 days. Residents ignore the rules of maintaining social distance. The police acted.
“We have been alone for more than a month. Alcohol will give us energy to maintain social distance during the pandemic,” said one resident who was in line to buy alcohol in Kolkata, Asit Banerjee (55).
Police freely swung Lathi sticks in New Delhi and other cities to control the crowd.
In places like Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh state, the police have even closed shops after they opened a long line of masked men surrounding the block.
“One of the stores opened in the morning, but fighting broke out when many people gathered,” said a police officer in Ghaziabad.
There are also residents who finally managed to buy alcoholic beverages. A 25-year-old man named Sagar said he went to a liquor store in Delhi at 7:30 am and was happy that the store had opened earlier.
