1.5L ml of Illicit liquor, 8900-litre lahan seized in Harike

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, November 11

A joint team of the Excise Department and police conducted raids in the Mand area near Harike village on Wednesday and seized 8,900 litres of lahan with other material. Navjot Bharti, Excise Officer (EO), said the Mand area had been considered a hotbed for making illicit liquor and the department had been conducting frequent raids with the help of drone fitted cameras for the operation. He said today the raids were conducted with the help of excise officials from Ferozepur and the district police were led by DSP (Operation) Iqbal Singh. Amanbir Singh, Excise Taxation Inspector (ETI), Patti and Jatinder Singh, ETI, TarnTaran led the teams to conduct raids at different places. Navjot Bharti said the searching teams seized 6,900 litre of lahan, 1,50,000 ml of illicit liquor, two iron drums, one patila silver and one tirpal.

On Tuesday, a team of the Harike police and Excise Department conducted raids in the Mand area, near Harike, seized 2,000 litre of lahan and arrested Kaptain Singh of Harike. Cases under Sections 61, 1, and 14 of the Excise Act and Section 24 of the Water Prevention and Pollution Control Act were registered against three persons, including Kaptain Singh.