Cops ask bar owners to turn ‘informers’

Nagpur: The city police, in order to tackle rising assault cases, have undertaken an innovative step and asked owners of bars, liquor shops and country liquor dens to alert police regarding goons and and miscreants creating a ruckus.
Zonal DCP Vinita S, along with Sadar police station staff, visited some bars, liquor shops and hooch dens to warn them of action if they fail to inform cops about any anti-social elements visiting their premises and ruckus involving them.
Senior inspector Vinod Choudhury, who accompanied the DCP on the foot patrol from Gaddigodam to Goa Colony, said the measure to approach was undertaken to curb assault cases. “Some cases of assaults near bars and liquor shops have taken place earlier. We have now told the bar and the liquor shop owners to inform police before any incident takes place,” he said, adding the bars and liquor shops were also told to follow Covid norms.
“Seven persons were pulled up for not wearing mask during the patrolling. Residences of four hard-core goons were checked and actions were initiated against traffic violators too,” he said.