Villupuram: The additional director general of police, prohibition enforcement wing (PEW), Mr C.K. Gandhirajan, has directed police officials of Villupuram district to intensify vehicle checks to curb smuggling of rectified spirit and Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) bottles into the district.
Speaking to mediapersons after a meeting with PEW officials in Villupuram on Thursday, he said the Goondas Act would be invoked against those who indulged in illicit distillation of arrack, sale of arrack and those engaged in the preparation of fake IM FL by smuggling rectified spirit and IMFL bottles from other states.
He said 10 fake liquor units functioning in Villupuram, Kancheepuram, Thanjavur, Tiruvannamalai, Tiruvallur and Tirupur districts were busted by the PEW police. A total of 46,232 cases were registered and 46,917 persons, 3,547 of them women, were arrested all over the state till May 2014.
Over 2.97 lakh litres of liquor, worth Rs 1.19 crore, 47,919 litres of rectified spirit, worth Rs 7.19 lakh, and 13,244 litres of toddy, worth Rs 3.97 lakh, were seized and destroyed during the raids.
As many as 105 habitual offenders were arrested under the preventive detention Act, while 261 habitual offenders were externed from their native places.
