The court of additional judicial commissioner in Ranchi on Wednesday sentenced three persons to seven years rigorous imprisonment in connection with illegal liquor trade.
The judge SP Dubey had on August 31 convicted them under section 52 (A) of Jharkhand Excise Act 2015. The convicted persons are Indrabhan Thapa, Gautam Thapa and Umesh Gurung.
While delivering the sentence the AJC also imposed a fine of one lakh rupees each on the convicts with the direction that they would have to undergo simple imprisonment of two more years for default in payment.
The court also sentenced them to one month imprisonment under section 273 of IPC.
It may be stated here two youths had died after consuming spurious liquor in Ranchi in September 2017. Police teams were formed to carry out raids against illegal sale of liquor in the city. A team raided the shop and house of Indrabhan Thapa and recovered large quantity of liquor from the place. Thapa could not provide relevant papers regarding his possession. He said that he purchased it from one Tarun Das.
Based on information police also raided the house of Umesh Gurung who said that he was involved in illegal sale of liquor form the house of Gautam Thapa. The police had registered a FIR (190/17) with the Doranda police station in this connection.