Regular visitors to Heera Devi’s home in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar were in for a surprise when they knocked on her door on Monday night. They were looking for country liquor, but the 43-year-old woman, a bootlegger in Delhi’s biggest unauthorised colony, offered them milk packets instead.
A handwritten note pasted on the front gate of her house cleared the confusion. “Yahan ab sharaab nahi milti hai. Sirf doodh bikta hai. Kripya sharaab na maangein. (Alcohol is not sold here any more. Only milk is available Please don’t ask for alcohol),” it said.
The change of heart and business was the result of a “pledge” that Heera Devi had taken earlier in the day. She was among 51 alleged bootleggers from the locality who were encouraged by the local police to quit selling illegal liquor and choose a legal business.
Read more of this in a report by Shiv Sunny published in Hindustan Times...
