Illegal liquor factory busted in Panchkula

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 24

The Panchkula police busted an illegal liquor factory and recovered equipment used for making liquor from a house at Bhareli village near Barwala on Sunday evening.

The police said after receiving information, a team from the Barwala police chowki took along a house owner and raided his another house in the village. No one was present in the house at the time of the raid. The police team found a tempo (Chota Hathi) parked inside its boundary wall.

Bal Krishan, Inspector of the Excise Department, also reached the spot. He checked a drum and liquid kept in the tempo. After smelling the liquid, the Inspector confirmed that extra neutral alcohol was being used for making illicit liquor.

The team took along the house owner inside and recovered a machine from a room adjoining the kitchen, which was being used to seal the bottles. The team also recovered a 300-litre tank and a case in which 35 litres of liquid was kept. There were 550 pieces of bottle covers in a bag, fake 51 pages of hologram, empty bottles of ‘777 Oak Vat’ for sale in Haryana and Chandigarh only and 1,800 empty bottles without any label.

The house owner told the police that his son rented the house to Sanjay Sharma, a resident of Saharanpur, on April 10, 2021, on the recommendation of his friend Deepi, a resident of Bhareli. Sanjay and his accomplice contractor Mohit Sharma took the house on rent for staying their workers.

A case under Section 61(1) 4-20 of the Excise Act, Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 188, 269 and 270 of the IPC and Section 51-B of the Disaster Management Act has been registered against the suspects. However, the police are yet to make any arrest in the case.