Nagpur: The ongoing police actions against liquor retailers, bar managers, owners and consumers in various parts of the city seem to have left the bitter taste between the trading agencies that questioned the alleged highhandedness.
The management of three liquor stores in West Nagpur was withdrawn on Monday to entertain customers without permits required by the Excise Ministry.
Last week, the police focused on several state-beverage stores, bars and sires and took action against owners and customers.
According to a source at the Excise Ministry, Section 122 of the Law on Maharashtra’s prohibition provides great strength to the police department to act against the trade in liquor and companies in various aspects, including permits for consumption.
“To facilitate consumers or customers, there are provisions to issue permits in the 70-D part of the rules of foreign liquor Bombay, 1953,” said an official.
“This year, three lakh one day or permission of the event was issued for foreign liquor and around two lakh for state liquor in the first week of December.
The other six lakh will soon be issued,” the official said, added, 2,305 permits for one year and 2,586 For a lifetime it is also issued.
Excise officials also said that liquor stores and bar owners should sell licenses of alien alcoholic beverages one day for RS 5 and state fluid permits for RS two to their customers in accordance with the norms, which fail.
“The Excise Ministry is a license authority and violation of the rules are handled by collectors who can add fines to 50,000 rs.
The police must send us a report of their actions,” said the high-ranking.
Defending the action, CP Amitesh Kumar said that every violation of the license norm would be truly handled, both serving or selling liquor.
“We will soon meet the association and prepare them about the purpose and purpose of the police,” he said, adding, the drive against illegal will be increased.
Meanwhile, excise officials also stated that the license holder, was withdrawn by the police, having permission earlier than 1953.
“The entrepreneurs who generate revenues are worth the rupee can’t be treated equivalent to the bootleggers,” said a liquor trader.
Raja Bose, Secretary of the Association, said the police really stood in front of the shop looking for catch.
“Many of the appeals made to the government demand that the excise department must take action and not the police have been unconditionally,” he said.
“We ran out of permits but customers who were in a hurry insisted on buying liquor without it.
They were held by the police when they were out of the store,” said the manager at a liquor store in the West Nagpur.
The memory of the permit has had an impact on sales, the shop owner said.
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