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Police seized over six thousand liquor bottles stored, waiting to be sold illegally, in a private club in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Saturday. Read more on Dynamite News:
Madurai: Police seized over six thousand liquor bottles stored, waiting to be sold illegally, in a private club in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Saturday. In a crackdown against the marketing of illegal liquor in the Madurai district, police confiscated around 6,228 liquor bottles stored illegally in a private Manamagil Mandram (Club) in Madurai, and arrested one person.
During the police's investigation, it was revealed that these liquor bottles were sold at unauthorized times. These were caught during a police raid at a private Manamagil Mandram( Club) owned by Panaselvam at Mela Perumal Mestri Road," Madurai Police said. The police registered a case and arrested the manager namely, Maharajan.
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"Liquor bottles were transported illegally from Telangana. So far we have destroyed 2,000 litres of illicit liquor and filed 226 cases," said Kanthi Rana Tata, Commissioner of Police, Vijayawada.
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