Spurious liquor in branded bottles found in a licensed IMFL shop   – four arrested  

By Akshya Rout

Jajpur,March 28 :  Flying squad of the excise department  on  Monday arrested four persons  and seized a huge cache of raw material, equipment and chemical used to make spurious liquor in a licensed Indian Made Foreign Liquor Shop (IMFL) at Balikuda Bazaar under Balichandrapur police station in Jajpur district.

Acting on a tip off , we  raided the licensed  liquor shop  and seized many  bottles of different volumes of the IMFL, stickers of bottles , machine for packing country liquor caps, huge quantities  of spirit, chemical , empty bottles , levels of branded liquor companies and  other incriminating items.

 We sealed the liquor shop.  During preliminary investigation, we  came to know that the owner and employees of the liquor shop  used to fill spurious liquor in expensive liquor bottles.

The spurious liquor was packaged like the original and sold  to the  consumers at a cheaper rate, said D. Patel, the Superintendent of the flying squad of the   Excise Department of Cuttack.

The owner of the liquor shop managed to flee from the spot. Efforts are being made to nab him and others  involved in manufacturing spurious liquor, added the official.