Senior Congress leader Karan Singh Dalal on Tuesday alleged that a multi-crore liquor scam was going on in Haryana, causing huge loss of revenue to the exchequer and demanded a high-level judicial probe into it.
In a letter to Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, the Congress MlA from Palwal alleged that “the political-departmental-liquor mafia nexus is causing loss of crores of rupees to the state exchequer...The Government has suffered revenue loss of Rs 300 crore in the previous financial year.”
After BJP came to power in Haryana in October last year, several raids were conducted in Gurgaon and Faridabad to check liquor mafia, Dalal said addressing a Press conference.
He said on inspections of various liquor licensees’ premises, it came to light that thousands of bottles of liquor were lifted from distilleries in excess of their quota without paying additional excise duty on it.
“At some premises, heavy shortage of liquor was also found, which means that licensees have evaded excise duty and sold the excess liquor in other States,” Dalal alleged.
He added that nominal penalty was imposed on licensees who violated the rule. Dalal also claimed that the State Excise and Taxation Department failed to lodge FIR against those liquor contractors who lifted liquor more than their additional quota. “Moreover, their licences were also not cancelled,” he said, alleging that rampant corruption was going on in the Department.
Dalal demanded computerisation of issuance of permits to check the illegal practice.