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24 arrested for illegal liquor sale

TIRUNELVELI: Police have arrested 24 persons for selling Indian Made Foreign Liquor in TASMAC-run bars across the district.

To check illegal sale of liquor in bars, surprise raids were conducted right from Friday morning as per instructions of Superintendent of Police Vijayendra Bidari. As many as 24 workers were arrested from bars at Maanur, Thevarkulam, Thaazhaiyooththu, Koodankulam, Vickramasingapuram, Alwarkurichi, Ambasamudram, Tenkasi, Sivagiri, Veerakeralamputhur, Thiruvenkatam, Panaivadalichathram and Pattamadai.

While liquor was sold in bars even before regular working hours of the IMFL outlets that starts at 10 a.m., some of the bars were found operating even around midnight during the raid.

Besides seizing 1,460 IMFL bottles from the erring bar workers, Rs. 4,585 in cash was recovered from them.

A total of 23 cases were registered in this connection.

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