Illegal liquor factory busted in Haryana; 4 held
Noida, Oct 31 : In an inter-state operation, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police Wednesday claimed to have helped bust an illegal liquor factory in Haryana's Gurgaon, officials said.
Police in the district's Greater Noida had Tuesday intercepted a vehicle and seized 30 cartons of illegal liquor from it. Four people, including two women, were arrested, they said.
During further probe, it was found that the liquor bottles bearing fake barcodes and labels of various brands were procured from a factory in Gurgaon for sale in western Uttar Pradesh, police said.
"With the gathered information, a joint team of police from the Knowledge Park police station and the Excise Department raided the factory in Gurgaon on Wednesday," a police official said.
"We seized 2,000 pints of illicit liquor, a tanker filled with 200 litres of liquor, around 5,000 empty bottles, packing and wrapping machines, fake barcode stickers in huge quantity, among other items from there," he said.
Those arrested have been identified as Prince Bhatia, Tilakraj Bhatia and two women (identity withheld by the police), the official added.
A case has been registered at the Knowledge Park police station under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) and related offences. They have also been booked under the provisions of the Excise Act, police said.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar police had last month busted an illegal factory operating in Ghaziabad's Tronica city area. During the raid carried out by a team from Sector 24 police station, around 15,000 litres of illicit liquor were seized and six people arrested. The factory's key operators were arrested later.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
