Illicit liquor racket busted in Amritsar
11 held, including a woman, for producing illicit liquor in a minidistillery at Lakhuwal village; 58 tonne lahan seized
AMRITSAR : Four days after an illicit liquor racket was busted in Ajnala sub division of Amritsar district, police unearthed another such mini distillery and arrested 11 people, including a woman, after recovering 58 tonnes of ‘lahan’ (raw material used for making the liquor) at Lakhuwal village early on Friday.
The Amritsar district rural police teams conducted the early morning raids and also recovered 4.61 lakh ML illicit liquor, nine live stills, 41 drums, six LPG cylinders, 22 kg of opium plants and 10 tarpaulins from the village.
Those arrested were identified as Rajan Singh, Avtar Singh, Radha, Paramjit Singh, Abhi, Samsher Singh, Sonu, Sandeep Singh, David Masis, Sunny and his father Amar Singh, all from the same village.
Police have identified four more accused and raids are on to arrest them. The accused had been producing illicit liquor on a scale of a mini distillery by installing stills in their house.
Police teams conduct raids after tip-off Senior superintendent of police (SSP), Amritsar rural, Dhruv Dahiya said that the raids were conducted after a tip-off about the accused.
He said teams were set up under the supervision of DSP (detective) Gurunderpal Singh, assistant superintendent of police (ASP), Majitha, Abhimanyu Rana, DSP, Ajnala, Vipan Kumar and DSP, special branch, Sukhraj Singh to conduct the raids. The entire village was cordoned off during the raid.
4 days ago, liquor unit was busted in Ajnala The raids come four days after the Punjab excise department busted an illicit liquor manufacturing unit being run at Khiala Kalan village of Ajnala.
Eight people, including three women, were arrested. Six stills, 62 drums of 200 litres each, six LPG cylinders, 31 plastic cans of 100 litres each, two water tanks
of 500 litre capacity, two plastic drums of 50 litres each, 11 plastic cans of 35 litres each and tarpaulins were recovered by the excise department team with the help of the police.
Cong sarpanch arrested with 1kg opium in Patiala PATIALA: A Congress sarpanch of Sooroh village in Patiala district has been arrested with 1kg of opium. Satinder Singh Dimple is close to senior Congress leaders of Ghanour constituency.
Police have also apprehended his accomplice Balwinder Singh from Napera village, who was also travelling with him.