Illicit liquor recovered in raids in Jhansi

Jhansi: On its second day of district-wide drive against spurious and illegal country-made liquor, the Jhansi police and excise department, conducted raids at the outskirts of the city and rural belt across the district on Monday. They recovered a large quantity of spurious liquor and raw material. At many places, the raw material was found hidden in plastic barrels buried underground.
Police took help of drone cameras and JCB machines in the raids. At a place in Padri village, the police found a tubewell hand pump fitted to the barrels filled with liquor underground. The police found ten thousand litres of raw material stored in 50 barrels here.
District magistrate Jhansi Andra Vamsi said that the administration, with the help of police, has recovered 1,245 litres of illegal country-made liquor and 14,000 kg of raw material in past two days.
“We will not allow manufacturing or sale of illegal and spurious liquor under any circumstances. It poses grave danger to the health of those consuming it as well as loss to the government exchequer. We will be continuously raiding such hideouts time to time,” said Vamsi on Monday.
District excise officer, Pramod Kumar Goyal has appealed to people to purchase liquor only from licensed vendors and warned not to consume liquor packed in pouches under any condition as they can prove fatal. He has also issued phone numbers to inform any such illegal activity in the district.