Mangaluru : Mangaluru sub-division of Excise Department police on Saturday seized over 100 litres of unauthorised liquor worth Rs.1.64 lakh from a residence at Kambala Cross in Mangaluru. Stating that the liquor appeared to be part of an inter-district and inter-State racket, the department suspected the unauthorised storage could be linked to the seizure of […]
Mangaluru : The Excise department and railway police jointly sized liquor that was being transported illegally on a train at Mangaluru Junction railway station on Friday May 28. The operation was led by Shailaja Kote, joint commissioner of Excise and Ajay Kumar, inspector southern railway Mangaluru. As much as 138.750 litres of liquor was seized from the […]
Udupi : The Excise Department officials of Udupi have seized a total of 29.520 litre of illicit liquor, 19.5 litres of Goa liquor, 429 grams ganja in four cases in the district in the month of Octobers in NDPS 1985 Act. As per complaints, a total of four persons have been arrested in these cases and five […]
Mangaluru : Around 430 bars located within the area of 500 and 220 meter distance from national and state highways respectively in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts were seen closed after June 30 midnight following last year’s Supreme Court order. The order was released by the Apex Court last year in the wake of steep […]
Kasargod: Officials of the Excise Department arrested a man from near Kumble railway station for possessing ganja worth Rs 40 lakh. Ratish (30) from Thiruvananthapuram was the accused; police sources say that he was the main person through whom ganja was being distributed to various areas in the district. The ganja found weighed about 18.750 […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday dismissed speculations of the state moving back on the new liquor law and asserted that there is no question of “diluting” after advertisements of excise department appeared seeking public opinion on it. Mr Kumar categorically said there was no question of going back on prohibition or “diluting” […]
Mangaluru : Three persons have arrested and 800 g ganja, weapons and five mobile phones, worth over Rs. 50,000 sized by the Excise Department personnel on Saturday in Bajal,Mangaluru. The officials gave the names of those arrested as Chandu alias Venkatesh Jalligudde, Avinash Padil and Naufal Jalligudde. The accused had allegedly packed ganja in packets […]
Bangalore: The Karnataka government on Saturday said it has instructed the State Pollution Control Board to take “suitable action” against United Breweries which was found running its beer production unit at Nanjanagud in Mysore district without operational clearance by the Board. Ecology and Environment Minister Sogadu Shivanna, who visited the unit three weeks ago, told […]
Bangalore: Lokayukta Court on Saturday ordered a probe against Karnataka Excise Minister M P Renukacharya for alleged violation of excise rules, prompted by a statement of an excise department official. Justice N K Sudhindra Rao directed Lokayukta police to probe the claims made by Deputy Commissioner of Excise (Bangalore) Mohan Kumar that 16 bottles of […]
Mangalore: Excise commissioner Chethan Kumar from Mangalore excise department as per the information of Prashanth Kumar K, Excise Sub Inspector, under the direction of K C Haridas, Excise Joint Commissioner, Mangalore Division and B V Hoovappa Gowda, Exside deputy commissioner, Dakshina Kannada have seized about 432 litres of liquor being illegally transported from Goa to […]
