Unidentified persons booked for carrying liquor
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Take your experience further with Premium access. Thought-provoking Opinions, Expert Analysis, In-depth Insights and other Member Only BenefitsFollowing a joint operation by the personnel of the Excise Department and the district police, unidentified occupants of an SUV were booked for carrying 22 bottles of whiskey on Wednesday, a day before polling for Ludhiana West by-election.
A case was registered on the statement of Jashanpreet Singh of Sunet village, who while standing at the crematorium at Block E of BRS Nagar had noticed that some unidentified persons were ferrying the liquor in a Mahindra Scorpio (PB 10 JL0025) and were also carrying pamphlets of a political party.
“Keeping in view the law and order situation the vehicle was searched and a case was registered against the unidentified persons on the recovery of 22 bottles of Royal Stag kept in cardboard cartons,” read the FIR.