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Alcohol ban succeeds as women warn, 'behave, or we'll get tough'

Murders and gang robberies are down almost 20% from a year earlier, and riots by 13%

Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Pranab Mukherjee
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President Pranab Mukherjee with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, RJD Chief Lalu Prasad and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav during a felicitation function organised by the Bihar government to mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagrah in Patna

Geeta Anand | NYT
Dozens of women brandishing brooms swooped down on a straw house in this village on a recent Saturday, sending the owner fleeing through a rice field as they seized buckets of fruit juice being fermented into a cheap liquor.

An hour’s drive away, a group of village women followed the scent of alcohol into a cornfield to find vats of moonshine dug into the ground, which they guarded for several hours until the police arrived.

Like so many disciples of Carry Nation, the temperance advocate who took a hatchet to United States saloons at the turn of the 20th century,