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Ludhiana, January 19
In a crackdown against liquor mafia, Ludhiana Commissionerate Police and the Excise Department jointly conducted raids near river Sutlej river and destroyed 7,000 litres of lahan.
In a statement, Commissioner of Police (CP) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said, “Police teams have deployed drones in this area during the combing operation so as to achieve promising results from the standpoint of surveillance.”
Bhullar added that both the teams conducted search operation in Bholewal Jadid and Rajapur (Ladhuwal) villages where 7,000 litres of lahan was recovered and destroyed subsequently. The teams also confiscated equipment used in lahan storage, he said while adding that more operations would be carried out in the remote river areas to curb the illegal liquor brewing activity through intensified combing. —
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