Ahmedabad: A 43-year-old deputy subedar of the Indian Army was arrested by the Sabarmati railway police after he was allegedly caught carrying 84 bottles of liquor reserved for defence personnel at Gandhinagar railway station.According to the FIR, railway police personnel were patrolling Platform No. 1 on Tuesday afternoon when the Daulatpur-Gandhinagar Express arrived. During the…
Patna: An average of 438 people were arrested every day in ‘dry’ Bihar during June on charges of manufacturing, storing, transporting, selling or consuming liquor.According to figures released by the state’s prohibition and excise department on Tuesday, 13,166 people were arrested under the anti-liquor campaign between June 1 and June 30.“During this period, a total…
Bhubaneswar: Excise sleuths busted a country liquor-making distillery amid dense residential houses of Salia Sahi slum on Saturday. They found and seized 5,000 litres of country-made liquor and arrested three persons in this connection.Acting on a tip-off, the personnel raided the storage and manufacturing units of liquor and thereafter, dumped the raw materials. Earlier, excise…
Patna: The Patna high court ruled that district-level special excise courts, constituted to hear cases under Bihar’s liquor prohibition law, have the jurisdiction to decide release applications pertaining to non-alcoholic and non-contraband goods or consignments seized along with vehicles, allegedly carrying liquor bottles.The provisions of liquor prohibition laws in Bihar permit the special excise courts…
Chandigarh: The excise and taxation commissioner department seized 35,000 bottles of liquor being smuggled out of the city. A vehicle was intercepted at around 10:30pm on June 7 near IT Park lights by ETI Shaveen Jain along with staff of CIA Sector 11.During the search of the vehicle, 1,439 bottles of liquor, comprising 75 cases…
Indian police destroy seized illegal liquor bottles during an enforcement operation Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police have seized and destroyed illicit liquor and related material, collectively worth Rs 40 lakh, between May 28 and June 2.The police also registered 181 cases and acted against 190 suspects during the same period. Of these cases, 11 were…
Based on an intelligence alert from the Delhi Polie RPF Bengaluru Seized liquor worth more than Rs 60 lakh from a parcel van Bengaluru: Railways unknowingly transported more than 1,000 litres of illegal liquor worth over Rs Rs 60 lakh to Bengaluru through its freight train. It was detected Thursday when Railway Protection Force (RPF)…
Varanasi: Three staff of a model wine shop were caught red handed while selling liquor near Varanasi Junction (Cantt railway station) after closing of the shop on Friday late night. Sigra police also seized huge stock of liquor from them.Station in-charge Shivanand Mishra said police raided the shop in Vijayanagram Market opposite Varanasi Cantt Railway…
