Hundreds of people lined up outside liquor shops in Delhi today, for the second consecutive day, after they re-opened following a nearly 40-day dry spell because of the coronavirus lockdown. Despite a 70 per cent increase in liquor prices in the capital, large crowds, of mostly men, were seen in snaking queues or jostling restlessly from before sunrise, without following social distancing guidelines.In some places, the police used lathis to control the crowds. A man outside a liquor shop in east Delhi’s Krishna Nagar, where the cops lathi-charged the people in the mile-long queues, said he had been waiting outside the shop since 4 am.
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