HANSARIA, C. J.

( 1 ) 7/05/1992. Cuttack was calm when the day dawned. Who had known that a "disaster of unprecedented proportion" was going to strike and disturb placid waters of the Mahanadi and Kathajodi ? But it took place. A man-made tragedy took a great Toll (124 deaths, according to the State), and it was our well known hooch tragedy. Not that the people of this State have not known about such tragedies taking place in the past, but then, it was the great dimension of the tragedy which stunned the people, so much so that they almost lost faith in all instrumentalities of the State. People started thinking whether they had been left to the wolves to be killed. The question with which we are seized is about the responsibility of the State to find out why spurious liquor took the toll of 124 lives, and what steps are required to be taken to stop recurrence of such a heinous crime, at the root of which lies the naked greed for money and nothing else. Ours is a "socialist democratic republic" and its people have been promised by the Constitution a right to live and not to be killed except in accordance with the procedure established by law. Do the instrumentalities of the State