Search operations on to nab accused: IG
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Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 2
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The Divisional Commissioner, Jalandhar, today held a meeting with senior police officers of the border range, headed by IG SPS Parmar, and excise officials in order to work out a strategy to curb bootlegging in the border belt.
‘Action being taken’
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We held a detailed meeting over the joint operations to be conducted to curtail the illicit liquor trade. Raids are already underway to put the accused behind bars.— SPS Parmar, IG
Talking to The Tribune, Parmar said they held a detailed meeting over joint operations to be conducted to curtail illicit liquor trade. “Combing and search operations are already underway in the entire state to put the accused behind bars,” he said.
Joint operations with the Excise Department would be done to check the entire nexus. “Whether the liquor was siphoned from tankers or distilleries, everything is being investigated threadbare,” he said. He said earlier the thrust was on drug peddling in the state and this was undercurrent. Now that the problem had come to the fore, appropriate steps were being taken to stop it. Meanwhile, the Amritsar rural police today arrested 10 bootleggers and smashed two illegal distilleries running in villages.
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