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| Juice shops and chicken corners that turn into bars at night | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 12: If you want to be on the booze and that too without spending much, visit the "unofficial" night bars which are operational with impunity from law in almost every nook and cranny of the winter capital city. At a fruit juice shop, liquor is mixed with juice and then served. The shop owners charge only for juice. Liquor is brought by the booze lovers with them. Liquor can also be consumed inside a chicken corner or outside it in a private car, cops won't disturb you. Fruit juice shops and meat shops are the two places that serve as unofficial bars at night. Though the concerned police stations are in knowhow of it, the illegal business has been thriving with exemption from legal punishment. Ironically, these booze corners have shown a mushroom growth not only at small and out-of-the-way places where such activities could get a cover, but in the city too. Outside some chicken corners and meat dhabas at Rehari, Ambphalla, New Plots and Gandhi Nagar, cops in police Gypsies are often seen during evening hours when booz lovers throng these places, but they do not act. Liquor consumption is allowed openly in these shops. Some juice shops and chicken corners at Jewel are serving as night bars since long. Not only from the city, liquor lovers from peripheral places also relax themselves there. Other places attaining notoriety on this account included Paloura, Bakshi Nagar, Gangyal and Narwal. As many avoid visiting bars due to the higher cost of beer and whisky, meat dhabas, chicken corners and juice shops virtually serve as "bars" and "wineshops" during evening hours.
Astonishingly, everything goes smoothly without being "noticed" by law. With police not acting against them, there has been increase in the number of these roadside liquor stops for the past sometime.
At New Plots, people, including school and college goers, could be seen consuming beer in a dark street, which adjoins a wine shop at Sarwal Morh.
Despite complaints to beat cops in this regard by pedestrians and those residing in the nearby houses, the number of drunkards in the street continues to swell with every passing day.
There could a law and order situation at these illegal booze corners as during an investigation carried out by The Early Times, it became known that the youth showered choicest abuses on one another.
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