Illicit liquor factory case: BJP leader Rajan Angural surrenders in Jalandhar

Jalandhar, July 2

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BJP leader Rajan Angural, who was wanted in the illicit liquor factory case in Jalandhar, surrendered before the police on Tuesday. As per the sources, the bail plea of Rajan and his brother Sheetal Angural was also rejected by the court, after which he surrendered. However, the police did not release any official statement in the matter so far.

According to the information, earlier, the officials of the Excise Department from Chandigarh and the local police team had raided a liquor factory of the BJP leader situated in the industrial zone near Dhogdi road. After the raid, conducted around two weeks ago, machines for preparing illicit liquor were found installed in the factory. Liquor preparation material was also recovered from there. During the raid in the factory, a dispute also occurred between the teams of the Excise Department and the people of Rajan Angural.

The team of the Excise Department had also raided a house in Shiv Vihar of Nagra. Six sacks of liquor bottles were confiscated. The department had seized about 42,000 caps of liquor bottles. Police have recovered 11,000 empty bottles from the factory. Apart from this, 3,400 cardboard boxes have been recovered. — TNS