Phones, liquor seized from prisoners

September 9th, 2009 PATNA - Women activists under the banner of Durga Dusta organised a protest march in Patna on Wednesday, demanding a ban on the sale of liquor in the state. he activists raised slogans and held a protest march with the aim women aware of the social evils of alcoholism.

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.

May 6th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A truck with over 100 cases of liquor was seized from outside Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Rajiv Goyal's house here Wednesday, police said. 'We have seized a truck that had over 100 cases of IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor) parked outside the Goyal house in Sector 18 here.

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 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Hours before the first phase of polling in Andhra Pradesh, sporadic incidents of violence took place Wednesday while police seized over Rs.30 million (Rs.3 crore) in cash at different places. The opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders were attacked allegedly by the workers of the ruling Congress in Mahbubnagar and West Godavari districts.

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 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 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.

February 15th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - At a time when the country's general elections are just round the corner, the Haryana government Monday announced that reservations were being made for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Backward Classes (BC) category A in allotment of liquor vends under the new excise policy for this year. Haryana Finance and Excise and Taxation Minister Birender Singh said that the reservation, the first and the 'most unique' in the country, was being made to ensure participation of these categories in economic growth.

January 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Violence erupted in a West Bengal town Tuesday following reports that six people had died after consuming illicit liquor, but police denied anyone had fallen victim to the moonshine. Residents of Maheshtala town in South 24 Parganas ransacked illegal liquor shops and destroyed the hooch stored there as news of the alleged deaths spread.

January 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least six mobile phones and three SIM cards were seized by the police here Sunday from the inmates of the Alipore Central Jail, a police officer said. 'We have confiscated half a dozen mobile phones, three of them with SIM cards.