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Tribune News ServiceJalandhar February 25Chairing a district-level meeting to review crackdown on the illicit liquor trade in the district on Thursday Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori directed all the officials to further intensify the ongoing drive against this menace. He said the teams should work collectively to ensure that liquor smuggling bootlegging and illicit distillation of liquor if any in the district were checked efficiently. With 1531 FIRs registered last year the district had witnessed 64.99 per cent surge in police cases against bootleggers and smugglers in 2020. The DC said during the review meeting the Excise and Police Departments were also directed to take stricter action against any sort of liquor smuggling and bootlegging in the district. Special checking should be further organised in the coming days to check the sale of illicit liquor in the district..