Amid supply crunch, home delivery of booze in Muktsar

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, April 1

The unavailability of essential goods is hitting the consumers hard during the curfew period, but home delivery of liquor is still available in Muktsar district. Notably, liquor is not covered in the list of essential goods and vends, too, are closed. However, the illegal practice is going on unabated.

For instance, some alert residents of Hakkuwala village in the Lambi Assembly segment on Saturday caught a man who was posing as a milkman and kept the liquor bottles in a container to supply it door to door. A video of the incident has gone viral on the social media.

Similarly, a resident of Lakkarwala village was recently caught selling liquor. Nearly 40 quarter bottles of country liquor were seized from him.

Not just this, it is learnt that some affluent people had even started preparing hooch. “The police are busy in curfew duties. Thus, a number of people belonging to affluent farming families have started brewing liquor at their palatial houses. The police, too, don’t go to raid their house due to their political clout,” sources said.

Further, a video of some people selling liquor from their house and a vend has gone viral on the social media.

Notably, during the initial two-three days of the curfew, some liquor vends were found open.

Sources in the police said that they were unable to act against the bootleggers at this moment as the state government had already ordered to release people from jails on parole.

“We are busy in enforcing curfew and distribution of grocery among needy people. We are taking action against such people,” said Rajbachan Singh Sandhu, SSP, Muktsar.