100 liquor cases seized outside BJP leader’s house

July 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat State Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill proposing stringent punishment up to death penalty to deal with illicit liquor trade in the follow up of the recent hooch tragedy that claimed over 130 lives in the State. The Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Bill 2009 was passed with a majority vote in the House.

July 28th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat assembly Tuesday unanimously passed the Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment Act) 2009 bill that proposes death sentence or life imprisonment for those found guilty of manufacturing and selling illicit liquor in case of death of those who consume the brew in the state. The new bill follows the death of 136 people after consuming illicit brew in Ahmedabad since July 5.

July 23rd, 2009 KADAMPADI - Tamil Nadu police busted a factory making illicit liquor in Kadampadi village on Wednesday. The police seized spurious liquor worth 25 lakh rupees and arrested four persons running the racket here.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two men have been arrested for manufacturing the spurious liquor that caused death of over 30 people in the capital during the last two months, police said Tuesday. Raman, 32, and his younger brother Chaman, 30 - both residents of Gurgaon - were arrested by the special operations squad of the crime branch from Kapashera area Monday.

April 22nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Over 3,500 bottles of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) were seized here Wednesday, while they were being smuggled into Punjab, police said. 'It was during our regular search drive in which we arrested Darshan Singh, a resident of Patiala while carrying 3,576 bottles of IMFL in his Tata-407.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 48-year-old man has been arrested here for supplying spurious liquor that caused the death of over 30 people in the last two months in west Delhi, police said Thursday. Mukesh, accused in 60 cases of excise violation and other offences, was arrested Wednesday from the vicinity of Gagan Cinema in Nand Nagari in northeast Delhi.

April 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - With the poll panel and police in Andhra Pradesh making things difficult for political parties to distribute cash and liquor, candidates are coming out with novel methods - like distributing packets of chicken to woo the voters just hours before the polling. Following a complaint by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), police seized several packets of chicken Wednesday in Narsingpur village of Karimnagar district.

April 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Police seized Rs.80 million (Rs.8 crore) in cash and a truck-load of liquor in two separate raids near Bellary in north Karnataka, a senior official said Friday. 'The cash was being transported in a G4S security agency vehicle to Axis Bank branch in Bellary from the bank's Bangalore branch in violation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines and without valid documents.

April 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Police have seized over 200 million rupees unaccounted money in Andhra Pradesh in a drive against splurge of black money and free liquor by politicians and their cohorts in the run up to general polls. "Similarly, more than 20 crores of rupees are under verification which have been seized during the course of checking.

April 1st, 2009 DAHOD - The Gujarat police have intensified patrolling on a highway bordering Madhya Pradesh following reports of a number of make-shift country liquor vends coming up in the neighbouring state. The police suspect that before the polls, a lot of liquor is being smuggled from Madhya Pradesh to Gujarat, a state under prohibition.

March 31st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Unfazed by the global economic crisis, tipplers in the state will have consumed an estimated Rs.4,600 crore worth of liquor this fiscal - a record - to clock the highest ever annual sales in Kerala's history. According to a senior official of the Kerala State Beverages Corp (KSBC), the sole wholesalers of liquor and beer that is promoted by the state government, sales this fiscal are expected to touch Rs.4,600 crore by end of Tuesday - the last day this fiscal - as against Rs.3,669 crore the previous financial year.

March 17th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Taking a serious view of the liquor flow in Andhra Pradesh ahead of next month's polls, the election authorities Monday asked the state government to furnish on daily basis the details of production and supply of liquor in the state. The authorities also ordered closure of all belt shops or the illegal outlets of licensed liquor shops, within three days.

March 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Voting in the first of the two-phase Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka will take place six weeks from now but already liquor and saris are being stored to woo voters, an official indicated Monday. 'From several parts of Karnataka, we have seized liquor worth over Rs.290,000 meant for distribution among voters,' state chief electoral officer M.N.

March 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Forty foreigners, four of them women, were arrested along with their 60 Indian friends early Sunday near Bangalore while they were partying at a farmhouse, where liquor was being served without a licence, police said. Majority of the foreigners arrested are students and their nationality was being checked, police said.

January 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - The superintendent of the Alipore Central Jail here was issued a showcause notice after the police seized mobile phones, SIM cards and liquor from some prisoners, an official said Wednesday. It was Superintendent Kumaresh Roy's 'duty to keep a strict watch on the inmates.