Continuing crackdown on illegal liquor in the State, the Punjab Police on Saturday claimed to have seized nine illegal liquor storage and distribution points in Majitha, Ajnala and Attari sub-divisions and recovered 12,30,800 ml liquor.
DGP Punjab Dinkar Gupta said that Amritsar (Rural) Police have launched a special drive for three days and seized nine such illegal liquor distribution centres based on local intelligence sources.
FIRs have also been registered in every case of seizure, and the accused, including the owners of such illegal liquor centres, which constitute the final backward linkage in these cases, have been booked, and arrests made.
He said further raids and seizures were being planned across the district Amritsar (Rural) as part of the strict zero tolerance strategy against illegal liquor smuggling and distribution.
Gupta said 12,30,800 ml liquor has been seized across raids on 9 illegal liquor centres situated in sub divisions Majitha, Ajnala and Attari. ASP Majitha Abhimanyu Rana and ASP (under training) Maninder Singh, currently posted as SHO PS Ajnala, have played vital role in intelligence collection and conducting raids, seizures and criminal investigation of these cases under the supervision of Dhruv Dhaiya SSP Amritsar Rural, he added.