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UP police book youth for drinking beer during Ganga dip
Police in Varanasi have booked a youth, Santosh Singh, after a video showed him drinking beer while bathing in the Ganga at Assi Ghat. The clip, which surfaced on social media Friday,…
The Story in Brief
Police in Varanasi have booked a youth, Santosh Singh, after a video showed him drinking beer while bathing in the Ganga at Assi Ghat. The clip, which surfaced on social media Friday, triggered outrage among locals and religious leaders. In the video, Singh is seen with a beer can in hand during the early morning dip and later throwing the crushed can on the riverbank.
Bystanders called him out of the river and rebuked him. Singh, who claimed to be from Rohtas district in Bihar, has been charged with hurting religious sentiments. Police are trying to trace him.
The Indian Opinion
The outrage over a beer can at Assi Ghat is familiar, selective piety that targets easy prey while bigger polluters, from industrial waste to untreated sewage, get a pass. The Bhartiya Janata Party government's own Namami Gange programme has spent crores yet the river remains chemically toxic. A case for hurting religious sentiments might be legally sound, but it lets everyone pretend the real crisis is a crushed can. The real test is whether the same energy will target the factories and drains that poison the Ganga daily.
Source: millenniumpost.in
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