Rural police seize huge quantity of alcohol

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 14

The Amritsar rural police seized a major haul of industrial alcohol from two Mohali residents, who were carrying it to the Khasa distillery. But before reaching the distillery, the alcohol was being pilfered near Rampura village when a police team reached there and confiscated the alcohol.

Those arrested were identified as Kulbir Singh of Bakarpur, Mohali, and Sanjiv Kumar of Saneda in Mohali. Their third accomplice, identified as Sandeep Singh of Chhapa Ram Singh village, managed to dodge the police party.

The police confiscated over 24,000 litres of alcohol and the canter used for transporting it to the Khasa distillery.

Nirmal Singh, SHO, Chatiwind police station, said the police received a tip-off that the accused used to pilfer alcohol from the canter and sell it by diluting it with water. He said the police party was holding a naka at Jheete Kalan village when it received specific information regarding pilfering of alcohol from the canter. The alcohol is then sold in the rural belt by bootleggers at cheaper rates. The alcohol consumed directly after mixing it with water could prove fatal for consumers.

Only yesterday, the city police had arrested three persons with over 3,000 litres of pilfered alcohol, indicating the practice was continuing.