In Ambala, 1,140 bottles of liquor found dumped

Tribune News Service

Ambala, October 4

A couple of days after the Uttar Pradesh Police seized Rs 25 lakh whiskey manufactured in Haryana, the Ambala police on Sunday found 1,142 bottles of liquor, some of them bottled at an Ambala distillery under scanner, dumped in a ditch near Devi Nagar here.

The manufacturing year mentioned on the bottles was 2015, 2016 and 2017.

About 800 bottles were of plastic and without label. Some were bottled by NV Distilleries Private Limited at Badhauli village in Ambala district, some by Mayura distillery, Chandigarh, and some by Oasis Overseas Exports Private Limited, Jatwar.

The stock of NV distillery is under scanner ever since a Special Enquiry Team investigating named it in connection with the liquor scam.

The stock seized by the UP Police was also bottled by NV Distilleries Private Limited.

An official in the Excise Department said, “The stock was manufactured in 2015, 2016 and 2017. It is not fit for consumption. It seems someone dumped the old stock following the recent raids by the Excise Department and the police. A majority of the bottles are without a label.”

Sadar police station SHO Suresh said, “A case has been registered against unidentified persons under Section 61 of the Excise Act and Section 201 of the IPC.”

On September 11 and 12, a stock of about 1,300 boxes of the IMFL was recovered from two godowns and a truck here. On September 26, 1,369 boxes of liquor were seized from another godown.