John Wilbert & Vikramaditya
Port Blair, June 08: On 08/06/21, based on credible information, a Jungle search was conducted by the raiding team of Police Station Humfrygunj at the dense forest of Nayasahar village. During the jungle search, two Syntex of 500 ltrs capacity of each were found at 03 Kms inside of dense forest towards Nayasahar Dam with approximately 800 ltrs of Lehan.
Then all the above recovered illicit Lehan, Syntex and other articles were destroyed on the spot as per procedure. Due to dedicating efforts and hard-work amidst heavy rain such huge quantity of Lehan and other illicit liquor manufacturing articles were recovered and destroyed at the spot.

Port Blair, June 06: A & N Police is committed to zero tolerance policy against bootlegging and illicit liquor. To ensure that bootleggers and illicit liquor sellers do not take advantage of Lockdown, a close vigil has been kept over the bootleggers and of late the numerous raids have been conducted in various parts of the South Andaman district.
Though Police resources are over stretched and police is working 24×7 to enforce lockdown to contain and break the chain of Corona virus but there is absolutely no compromise on the issue of bootlegging. Rather, stringent surveillance is being kept over these activities against bootlegging and illicit liquor.
In the month of May, 2021, as many as 42 cases have been registered in South Andaman district. Huge cache of liquor that includes 258 bottles of IMFL and 1702 Kg of Handia were recovered. Criminal case is registered against Bar Owner of Golden Bar, Garacharma for bootlegging and 41 bottles were recovered in the raid. In addition, search operations were carried out in jungle to discover illicit liquor. Resultant 5820 liters of Lehan (fermented wash) was destroyed in jungle search operations. Leaving no stone unturned, as many as 14 deep jungle searches were conducted to keep a check on this illicit trade.
A & N Police is committed to take stern action against bootleggers and illicit liquor. In this context, 56 History sheets were opened against repeated offenders in the month of May, 2021 and strict surveillance has been mounted. 03 persons were also booked under preventive sections of CrPC.
The general public is requested to share information pertaining to any crime or other illegal activities to Police at 100, 112 & 03192-233077. The identity of the informant will be kept secret.

 

John Wilbert & Savita Kumari
Port Blair, June 03: Two more people have been arrested by Aberdeen Police Team in Ganja Smuggling Case.
Recently on 31 May 2021 one person namely Ganesh Bag, a resident of Old Pallavaram, Tamil Nadu was arrested by a joint team of Police Station Chatham and Police Station Aberdeen at ITF Ground and from him 5.5 KG of Ganja was recovered. The arrest was made after the accused landed at Port Blair and was waiting for his RTPCR test.
On investigation police team found that two more people namely M Babu, 30 years and Mr. G Raj, 38 years, both residents of Junglighat, were involved in the Ganja racket of Ganesh Bag. After collecting sufficient evidence and links both were arrested by the PS Aberdeen team.
This was 2021’s biggest quantity Ganja seizure by Police Teams, it is learnt.