Word: datar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timorousness more visible than at last week's meeting of the Central Prohibition Committee. Almost to a man, committee members agreed that bootlegging is on the increase and "at least in urban areas" prohibition has failed. None of this, however, deterred Minister of State (and noted dry) Balwant Datar, who insisted any suggestion of relaxation or repeal was a "counsel of despair." Instead, Datar called for sterner laws and more rigorous enforcement, and in a final example of righteousness run riot, urged that in all trials involving prohibition violatiors "the burden of proof be shifted from the state...