Bootleggers improvise use electric furnaces stills for brewing liquor

  • | Friday | 9th April, 2021

PK JaiswarTribune News ServiceAmritsar April 8With regular raids on the illicit liquor trade in the past one month bootleggers are now using electric furnaces for brewing illicit liquor. On Thursday simultaneous raids were carried out at Chak Mishri Khan and Khiala Kalan village following a tip-off that bootleggers have started manufacturing illicit liquor again. The police teams had confiscated huge quantity of lahan and illicit liquor during separate raids in March. The police have arrested Sandeep Singh of Khiala Kalan village in this regard. The police seized 30-litre illicit liquor 3200-kg lahan two electric furnaces and 24 drums from Khiala Kalan village.

PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service Amritsar April 8 With regular raids on the illicit liquor trade in the past one month bootleggers are now using electric furnaces for brewing illicit liquor. This has left the cops baffled. On Thursday simultaneous raids were carried out at Chak Mishri Khan and Khiala Kalan village following a tip-off that bootleggers have started manufacturing illicit liquor again. The police teams had confiscated huge quantity of lahan and illicit liquor during separate raids in March. SSP Amritsar (Rural) Dhruv Dahiya said water heating rods were used by bootleggers in constructing electric furnaces which were used to brew liquor faster. It was the ninth raid in over past one month. The police have arrested Sandeep Singh of Khiala Kalan village in this regard. The police seized 30-litre illicit liquor 3200-kg lahan two electric furnaces and 24 drums from Khiala Kalan village. Similarly the cops seized 400-kg Lahan a running still and two drums from Chak Mishri Khan village. In the past one month the police have conducted raids at Khiala Kalan Lakhuwal Chhapa Ram Singh Kotli Sakka Jasso Nangal Chak Mishri Khan Jethuwal and Fattewal villages. Dahiya said properties of notorious bootleggers and repeated offenders were being identified and they would be freezed after valuation from competent authorities.

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