Port Blair, August 16: In continuous action against bootlegging, Police team of PS CCS have seized 267 bottles of IMFL from School Line and Junglighat areas of Port Blair on August 14 & 15, 2013.
To check the illegal sale of liquor on Independence Day, a Police team of Central Crime Station comprising of SI Usman, SI N. Zainuddin, PCs Sameer Ahmed, Sujit Dutta, Amit Xalxo, Ashiq Iqbal, Karthik Uraon and Vikas Singh and HG/Shanmukh Rao, conducted a series of raids on August 14 and 15, 2013 across the town and recovered 267 bottles of IMFL (61 nos. 750 ml, 24 nos. 375 ml and 182 nos. of 180 ml.). 177 bottles of IMFL were recovered from the possession of M. Ganeshan, (23) yrs r/o Ranchi Tikri, School Line, while in another raid 90 bottles were recovered from K. Jay Kumar, (30) yrs. r/o Ranchi Basti, School Line and Sakthi, (35) yrs. r/o Junglighat. The offenders have been arrested under A & N Excise Regulation.
General public have been requested to extend their help to Police in curbing this menace by passing on information regarding bootlegging on the nos.– 100, 232586, 233307 and 9434288546, a communication from SP (CID), S/ Andaman said here.