Two illegal liquor vends busted, two arrested

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 25

Acting on specific inputs, the rural police on Friday busted two illegal liquor vends at Mattewal and Jagdev Khurd village running right under the nose of the excise officials and the police.

The police have arrested two persons while four others are still at large. Huge quantity of liquor was seized from the two vends. Police authorities said that those arrested were identified as Sahib Singh of Balara village and Manga of Bala Chak village.

Sahib was running vend in a shop located on the main road Mattewal here. According to the police, following a tip off, the police team headed by Manjinder Singh, SHO, Mattewal police station, raided the shop and found 279 litres of English and country made liquor from there. The police said that 164 bottles of whisky of different brands, 188 half and 475 quarters were seized from the shop during the raid. Sahib’s interrogation revealed another name Satish Kumar who was partner in running the illegal vend.