AHMEDABAD: With days remaining for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Gujarat police are coming down hard on liquor mafias to stop the flow of illegal liquor in the state. During the daily liqour raids operation, the monitoring cell directly functioning under instruction of DGP Shivanand Jha on Wednesday, seized 1067 bottles of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) in a liquor den at Palsana in Surat District Jurisdiction. "We have arrested two who were present at the place of a raid. One of them is Raju Rajput and the other Prakash Chaudhri, both from Surat" said DGP Jha.
Police officials said it was very important to see that not a single bottle of whisky or bag of country-made liquor was trafficked or smuggled into Gujarat keeping view the forth coming Lok Sabha elections. "There have been instances in the past wherein voters were bribed by giving them liquor bottles in the place of vote for the candidate by their supporters. This has to be stopped to have free and fair elections," added a top police official.
Till now more than 20 police inspectors and similar number of sub-inspectors had been suspended for negligence as they were not aware of liquor or gambling dens running in their jurisdiction until the monitoring cell official raided the dens and seized illegal substances, added a top police officials.