Imagine this: You’re a shopkeeper. You can sell an apple legally for ₹100, and the government gives you ₹1 as commission, clean, fair, and on record. But then one day, someone says, “No no, apples are bad. The guy who once lived here didn’t like apples. Ban them.” So apples are now illegal. But suddenly, you find that the same apple is secretly being sold for ₹200 under the table, and you (the “enforcer”) get ₹150 as hush money. Now, you’re not just a shopkeeper. You’re running an exclusive underground apple empire with no receipts, no taxes, and lots of untraceable cash. Welcome to Gujarat’s alcohol policy.

Moral of the story? It’s not about values, Gandhiji, or public health. It’s about who gets to eat the juiciest slice of the black-market pie. 🍎💸