Lucknow, 10 October (Hindustan Reporter). 1440 bottles of non-province foreign liquor worth approximately Rs 8.50 lakh were recovered from a foreign liquor shop in Natkur under Bijnor police station of Lucknow. A case has been registered against the seller, licensee and smuggler selling at the shop on the instructions of the Lucknow Excise Officer.
District Excise Officer Rakesh Singh said that on the information of the informer, Excise Inspector Lakshmi Shankar Vajpayee in-charge and Vivek Singh were conducting intensive searches of the shops in Natkur. Meanwhile, after scanning the bottles of various brands of liquor kept inside the counter of the shop in Natkur through the departmental app and doing physical verification, the codes and lids pasted on the bottles, adha and pauwa were found to be fake.
Rakesh Singh said that a total of 1440 bottles of Rajdhani brand and 120 boxes of foreign liquor were found on the spot. Whose estimated price is Rs 8.5 lakh, which was permissible for sale in Chandigarh. Apart from this, 1005 fake QR codes kept in rolls and a total of 6141 fake lids of different brands were also found. Apart from this, empty vials of different brands were also found in two sacks.
Himanshu Jaiswal, a resident of Nazirganj area of Hasanganj and who was caught selling at a shop, told during interrogation that this shop is allotted in the name of his mother Premwati. After this, the seller of the shop, the licensee and the smuggler were sent to jail under sections of the Indian Justice Code and Excise. The entire stock of the shop was confiscated and action was taken to suspend the license of the shop.