Jalandhar, July 3

The police remand of BJP leader Rajan Angural, who was wanted in the illicit liquor factory case in Jalandhar and had surrendered before the police on Friday, was extended by two days here on Saturday.

Angural was produced before the Judicial Magistrate, who remanded him in two-day police custody for interrogation.

The bail pleas of Rajan and his brother Sheetal Angural were earlier rejected by the court, after which he surrendered. However, the police still could not trace the whereabouts of Sheetal and two others involved in the case.

Earlier, officials of the Excise Department from Chandigarh and the police had raided his liquor factory in the industrial zone near Dhogdi Road. After the raid conducted around two weeks ago, the machines for preparing illicit liquor were found installed in the factory. Liquor preparation material was also recovered. The team of Excise Department had also raided a house in Shiv Vihar of Nagra. Six sacks of liquor bottles were seized. Each sack was filled with 7,500 liquor bottles. The police recovered 11,000 empty bottles from the factory. Apart from this, 3,400 cardboard boxes were also recovered.

Rajan said the liquor was not being made in the factory. “I had bought the factory only a week ago. The manufacturing of masks and sanitisers was to be started. I am being framed,” he said . — TNS