Drinking age
“The circumstance of the disparity between different states regarding the age when a person is able to consume alcohol is historic and reflects previous cultural norms and expectations. This disparity has the potential for adverse consequences and encouraging disdain for the law. A person coming to Delhi from a state which legalizes drinking at the age of 18 years is likely to continue consuming alcohol, thus criminalizing their behaviour,” the plea contended.
The plea claimed that 67% of the people in the age group of 18-25 years purchased alcohol from liquor vends, but were never asked to show their age proof, which has a corrosive effect on respect for the law.
Experts and the police are divided on the lowering of the alcohol drinking age in the national capital.
Delhi Police’s traffic chief Depender Pathak said that a large number of crimes and accidents in the city are committed under the influence of alcohol. “The faculties of a person develop till the age of 25, and poisoning it at this age affects their decision-making abilities, leading to crimes of passion,” Pathak said.
Mujeed Ahmed, a road safety expert and the founder of the NGO Safely, said that if people in India are considered old enough to get married at 21 (for men) and choose governments at the age of 18, there is no reason for putting a higher age cap for drinking alcohol.
“The focus should be on safety. I see no harm in setting a lower age limit for drinking, but the government should make sure that at every pub or liquor vend identity cards are checked before selling alcohol,” Ahmed said.
The matter will now be heard on October 9. cans.
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The sudden deaths have led to people abandoning their homes and livestock in the affected Kozhikode and Malappuram districts. An all-party meeting convened by the state government on Friday decided to take out a march through the worst affected Kozhikkode district to instil confidence among people and check their exodus.
Two ministers, excise minister T P Ramakrishnan, and health minister K K Shailaja, will participate in the yatra. The government has also decided to sack the employees of the electric crematorium who refused to cremate bodies of people who died of Nipah .
“The situation is under control. We contained the outbreak effectively and localised it. There is no need for panic. But we will not l ower our vigil,” said Shailaja. NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has arrested the man who allegedly made a hoax bomb threat call at the passport office in central Delhi’s ITO earlier this week and then two days later at Seelampur police station.
Police officials said the man wanted to go abroad but was prevented by his father who had confiscated his passport as he was deported from Australia seven years ago.
According to police, the man was i dentified as Rukhsar Ahmed, 36, a tailor by profession. It was on May 20 when police control room received a call about a bomb at the ITO passport office. The call was declared a hoax. Just two days later, on May 22, a similar call was received at Seelampur police station.
Deputy commissioner of police (north-east), Atul Kumar Thakur, said the calls were traced and a police team zeroed in on the PCO that was used by the caller. “Questioning led to the identification of a man with blonde hair. CCTV footages from the vicinity were checked and the man was identified. He was traced and arrested on Thursday,” Thakur said.
Ahmad’s father lives in Mumbai and he used to stay in Delhi on a rented accommodation.
THE SUDDEN DEATHS HAVE LED TO PEOPLE ABANDONING THEIR HOMES AND LIVESTOCK IN THE AFFECTED KOZHIKODE AND MALAPPURAM DISTRICTS