Liquor flows at Kuntala

Along with floodwater, liquor is flowing at Kuntala waterfall and it is surprising to know that women are taking the liquor bottles hidden in their handbags to down for their husbands or family members to escape checking at the entry point at Kuntala waterfall.

Guards deployed there say that they can’t check the women visitors and they were taking this an advantage. There are no police checks at the entrance to Kuntala in Neredigonda.

One can find empty liquor bottle scattered in plain area and near rocks and in the bushes. Most of the visitors especially youth and men come with families from other districts to Kuntala waterfall, celebrate with liquor and some of the families even cook non- vegetarian food there itself.

After consuming liquor, men and youth go to near gushing water and enjoy clicking the photographs in an inebriated condition. People in inebriated condition can’t control themselves in emergencies, unlike normal people.

Guard Poshetti Munuguru said some of the women taking liquor bottles hidden  in their handbags for their hands and family members to escape checking at the entrance to Kuntala waterfall.

Devidas Pawar, who is checking at the entrance, said some of the visitors hiding liquor bottles under carpets of the seats in their vehicles to avoid seizure of the liquor during checking and said they were helpless in controlling the liquor at the Kuntala waterfall.

Earlier, Neredigonda police used to conduct vehicles checking before allowing them to proceed towards the Kuntala waterfall and prohibited liquor sale at the roadside dabhas and hotels but one can’t find such measures now in place.

Poshetti expressed anxiety over college girls coming with their boyfriends and spending much time in the bushes or inside the forests at the Kuntala waterfall and added that unscrupulous elements may target the girls by attacking the men with the girls. He suggested that girls and women should not go into bushes and deep into forests for their safety.

It is suspected that some of the guards were not paying much attention to the materials the visitors carry and turn a blind eye to liquor celebrations by visitors.