Hyderabad: A 19-year-old birthday boy was arrested by the Jubilee Hills police for producing fabricated documents as age proof during an inspection held by the excise department's enforcement wing in bars and pubs. Excise and prohibition inspector S. Srinivas said that after the Ramya incident the excise authorities had directed its enforcement wings to inspect all bars and restaurants in the city.
“We inspected the Food-Link Bar and Restaurant on Jubilee Hills Road #1 on Tuesday. During the inspection, we found an under aged boy at table number 17. When we questioned him he confessed that he was only 19 years old and that on the occasion of his 19th birthday he was hosting a party for eight of his friends,” the inspector said. The accused, Vishesh Agarwal, confessed that he had procured the document when he was a student of Hindu College and that his date of birth was July 12, 1997. But, he produced a fake driving license to the bar authorities before organising the party in which his date of birth was given as July 12, 1994.
The inspector said the fabricated licence came to light when the excise police questioned the bar authorities how they had allowed an under aged boy in the bar and served liquor. “We immediately informed Jubilee Hills police. The Jubilee Hills police registered a case (crime number 432/2016) under Section 420,” he said. Inspections were also conducted in many bars and restaurants on Tuesday evening in Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills under the supervision of excise assistant commissioner P. Bhagawan Reddy.
