Police seize 10,000 liquor flasks, 600 litres of ‘unknown chemical’ in Kutch raid
In Gujarat's Kutch, police seized 10,000 flasks of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), along with over 600 litres of an unidentified chemical and liquor-making equipment, in Adipur area of Gandhidham Municipal Corporation on Tuesday. This follows a recent spurious liquor tragedy in Bhavnagar district that killed 13 people and left more than 60 others seriously ill after consuming Methanol-laced liquor.
The raid, led by Border Range Inspector General Chirag Koradia, uncovered 600 litres of the unknown substance, 200 litres of the finished product in barrels, 600 red flasks with 180 ml of the product each, and 9,400 empty flasks. The total capacity of these 10,000 flasks could hold around 1,800 litres of the adulterated liquor, which is equivalent to nearly 2,400 standard 750 ml bottles.
Two men, Hitesh Kheema Bamaniya from Mumbai and Bijnedra Lalchand Jat from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested during the operation.
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