Nagpur : A joint team of Dhantoli Police and State Excise Department on Wednesday unearthed a spurious liquor manufacturing unit in posh Dhantoli residential area which was allegedly set up by Congress worker Munna Jaiswal.
The illicit liquor manufactured in the unit was being supplied in Nagpur and to ‘dry’ districts Gadchiroli, Chandrapur and Wardha. The premises came under the police scanner after a truck loaded with liquor boxes worth Rs 5.50 lakh was seized by Dhantoli police on Dhantoli garden road near Balbharati office on Wednesday at 5.24 am.
A team of State Excise Department visited the police station in the afternoon and discovered that the bottles were containing spurious liquor. The police and Excise Department immediately activated their informers. On the basis of specific tip-off, the joint team raided the premises of Jaiswal situated just in front of his house in Dhantoli in the evening. The raiding party noticed a large numbers of empty bottles of foreign liquor and packed bottles of Haryana made liquor. The police also found boxes of lid of various foreign liquor brands in a room.
Keshav Chaoudhary, Inspector, State Excise Department informed that Jaiswal was running the spurious liquor manufacturing unit under the garb of tailoring unit and cattle shed. He was importing cheap liquor from Haryana and packing it into bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor bands.
The excise department team seized illicit liquor worth Rs 1.50 lakh and a mini truck from the premises. A person named Vinay Jaiswal, a relative of Munna Jaiswal,was arrested by the team. Preliminary investigation revealed that some Beer Bar owners were supplying empty liquor bottles to Jaiswal. As Jaiswal was using original bottles of branded liquor with lid and seal, it was difficult for anyone to suspects geniuses of the liquor. Dinesh Shede, Police Inspector, Dhantoli and Excised Department staff including Inspector Keshav Choudhary, and 2nd Inspectors Umesh Shirpate and Rao saheb Kore and others took part in the raid. Dhantoli police registered a case under Sections 65 9a) (d), 83 (b) of the Bombay Prohibition Act. Meanwhile, Munna Jaiswal has circulated a video message on social media blaming his employees for illegal storage of liquor on his property.
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