North India Statesman
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Gautam Buddha Nagar, 19 August (HS). The Noida unit of Uttar Pradesh STF (Special Task Force) on Monday caught a factory making adulterated country liquor running in the C block of UPSIDA site in Surajpur police station area. STF has arrested four people from the spot. A huge amount of liquor has been recovered from the spot. These people make adulterated liquor and sell it in connivance with the salesmen working at liquor shops in various districts of UP. Earlier, these people were running an illegal liquor factory in Bulandshahr district.
STF SP Rajkumar Mishra said that STF received information that country liquor was being made illegally in a factory located in C Block of UPSIDA site in Surajpur police station area. Raid was conducted on the information. He said that Kamal, Nikhil Soni, Amit Yadav and Govind Chaurasia son Jagdish Prasad resident of Kanpur Nagar district were arrested from the spot.
54 boxes containing pouches of desi liquor of different brands, 3 bore cotton empty tetra packs, 16 ATM cards, holograms of different liquor companies, 100% alcohol/spirit kept in a blue colour drum, adulterated desi liquor in 1 drum, an auto rickshaw which was supplied for selling liquor illegally, etc. were recovered from them. He told that during interrogation the police came to know that these people buy 100% alcohol/spirit from Rampur district.
He told that during interrogation police came to know that these people make spirit look like alcohol by mixing water, colour and essence in it. He told that they also have a meter to check the strength of alcohol, by means of which they make desi and foreign liquor by increasing or decreasing the percentage of strength in the liquor. After this these people put hologram of excise department on the bottles of adulterated liquor and after packing it they sell it at cheap rates in connivance with the salesmen working at liquor shops of various districts of Uttar Pradesh.
