Illegal Foreign Liquor, Drugs Seized in Assam

In a joint operation on Tuesday, Tarabari and Sarthebari police recovered a huge amount of brown sugar and nabbed one person in connection to it.

The arrestee was identified as one Fulchan Ali.

As per sources, 52 brown sugar containers, 93 empty containers and Rs 35,000 cash were seized during the operation which was led by Barpeta DSP, Sameerdutta Baruah.

In a different operation, illegal foreign liquors worth millions were seized from Nagaon Railway Colony on Tuesday.

Eviction of large gambling dens was also carried out by the police during the operation.

As per sources, a gambler identified as Swapan Dev has been detained by the police.

The illegal liquor was kept in the house of a man named Pradeep Dey, sources said.

Meanwhile, Excise Minister Suklabaidya asks officials to intensify drive against illicit liquor in the state. The minister asked officials of Darrang district to carry out enforcement drives regularly to prevent manufacture, sale and smuggling of illicit liquor.

At a review meeting with the Excise officials held in the conference hall of Orang National Park here on Monday, Minister Suklabaidya directed all the officials to further intensify the ongoing drive against this menace.

He said that concerted efforts needed to be made by joint teams of the civil and police administrations and the Excise department at the district and sub-divisional levels. He said the teams should work collectively to ensure that liquor smuggling, bootlegging and illicit distillation of liquor, if any, in the district were checked efficiently.

"Special checking should be further organised in the coming days to check the sale of illicit liquor in the district," the Minister added.

He directed officers of the Excise department to hold regular checking and take feedback from various sources to curb illicit liquor.

The Excise officials apprised the Minister that several FIRs were registered against bootleggers and smugglers under the Excise Act in the past three months, besides nabbing several accused.

Suklabaidya also directed them to mobilise revenue and to meet the revenue target set by the department.

The officials requested the Minister to initiate steps to fill up the two posts of inspectors lying vacant.

The meeting was also attended by MLA, Ganesh Limbu, former MLA, Gurujyoti Das, among others.

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