Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 08:
Alleging that police and other security establishment operating in Manipur are the main suppliers of Indian made foreign liquor, the Centre for Organisation Research and Education has asked as to who would do the policing act against drug abuse and alcoholism when they are allegedly involve in supply of alcohol.
A statement issued by CORE while hailing the initiative taken up by some civil society organisations to check the growing menace of drug abuse and other intoxicating substances, observed that drug abuse and other intoxicating substances have brought not only untold miseriesand complete doom to the individual and the family but also destroyed the socio-economic well being of society.
Even as it appealed to all concerned to exempt use strictly for customary and cultural purposes, CORE cautioned against brewing of country made liquor on large commercial scale.