Liquor be sold in Arunachal Pradesh; confiscated in Punjab by Excise department
KI Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
In a major breakthrough, Punjab excise and taxation department confiscated as many as 32,640 bottles (in 2,720 boxes) of illegal liquor from three different locations in Patiala on Sunday.
As per the department spokesperson , an excise teams, led by deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Tejinder Singh Dhaliwal, conducted surprise raids at, Jorian Sadkan, Shekhupura area and Urban Estate Bypass on Patiala rajpura road. They recovered the illicit liquor bottles, which were meant for sale in Arunachal Pradesh only.
The department spokesperson said that 1,150 cases country made liquor of ‘Crazy Romeo’ label were recovered from a canter at Urban Estate Bypass, while 710 cases of ‘Blue Mood’ liquor were seized from another vehicle there.
The spokesperson added that 860 cases of liquor, without any label, were recovered from Shekhupura village.
The officials arrested three persons, identified as Malak Singh and Gurjant Singh, of Uttar Pradesh, and Dalbir Singh, of Gurdaspur in Punjab and they were arrested under the Excise Act for smuggling illicit liquor into the state.
“Liquor be sold in Arunachal Pradesh; confiscated in Punjab by Excise department and the accused will be taken on remand to investigate how they managed to smuggle the liquor meant for sale in Arunachal Pradesh into the state. Smuggling of such huge amount of illicit liquor is causing financial losses to the state exchequer,” the spokesperson said.
January, 20,2020
