Protests against wine shops continue; 2 outlets ransacked

Incidents of protests against the presence of liquor shops in the State continued with residents ransacking an outlet in the city and one in Kothagiri in nearby Nilgiris district today.
Members of DYFI gathered at Rathinapuri here and brought down a shed, where a State-run TASMAC shop was functioning illegally, police said.
The protestors broke liquor bottles stored there on the road as the shop was ordered to be closed, police said.
In the incident in Kykatti near Kothagiri, a group of people, including a large number of women, broke open a wine shop and threw out the bottles, to protest the functioning of the shop, despite their submitting a memorandum seeking its closure, police said.

Meanwhile, a group of people today took out a procession in Ondipudur seeking immediate closure of a wine shop.