Thiruvananthapuram: According to a tip-off, a group of excise officers in Vamanapuram scope on Wednesday seized fake currency notes having a face value of Rs 1.60 lakh when conducting a raid in an illegal liquor brewing facility.
The officers also captured 40 minutes of spirits and 1,220 minutes of clean from the center that served in a home at Thattupalam close Madathara beneath Palode police station constraints beyond the city.
The man who had been conducting the brewing facility fled visiting the officers coming.
A search was launched to monitor the defendant, that has been recognized as Irshad, a resident of Kochalummood.
Vamanapuram excise decision inspector G Mohankumar, that headed the group, stated Irshad was a habitual offender who had been detained by the officials of the identical range during the initial stage of the Covid-induced lockdown a year with 15 minutes of illicit liquor and 1,050 litres of clean.
“It ends up that the defendant had leased the home 20 days past,” the inspector said.
Irshad was into the company of ground moving and possessed a couple of excavators.
As stated by the home operator, Irshad leased the home for providing lodging for his workers.
However there wasn’t any one except Irshad at the home once the officers raided the home.
The fake currency notes were detected out of a secret compartment of a Suzuki Maruti Dzire which was parked around the home assumptions.
You will find 323 notes of Rs 500 denomination.
Anyway, money worth Rs 35,000 was found in the vehicle.
The bogus notes were passed on to the Palode authorities, that registered a case and started a probe to discover its origin.
Excise seizes Illegal Spirits, fake notes worth More than 1L
