Joint teams of Excise Department, Excise Police andAmritsar Police apprehended five persons and detected 7 drums of 200 litres each (1400 litres) of ENA
Continuing its drive against the smugglers involvedin pilferage of Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA), joint teams of Excise Department,Excise Police and Amritsar Police apprehended five persons and detected 7 drums of 200 litres each (1400litres) of ENA from a Mohindra Pick-up bearing No.PB-02-TG-1147. The team alsoapprehended Innova PB-10CG-0070 alongwith three persons who were piloting theMohindra Pick-up. The operation was conducted under the guidance of.RajatAgarwal, IAS Excise Commissioner, Punjab and under the joint supervision ofSh.Naresh Dubey, Joint Excise Commissioner, Punjab, Sh.Dhruv Dahiya, IPS, SSP(Rural), Amritsar, Sh.APS Ghuman, AIG(Excise) Sh.Jaspinder Singh, Deputy ExciseCommissioner, Jalandhar Zone and Sh.Vinod Pahuja, Asstt.Commissioner(Excise),Ropar Range.
Givingdetails, an official spokesman of the State Excise Department said that around20 days ago, a secret information was received regarding smuggling of ENA fromHaryana to Punjab. On receiving this tip from informer, Mohali Excise and teamof AIG Excise started exploring various aspects of the information. It came tonotice that few persons from Amritsar and Tarn Taran have again become activein the field of smuggling of ENA and further transporting it to Amritsar andTarn Taran area. The Excise Department vide letter dated 18.11.2020 informedsenior Police Authorities to take prompt action. Excise Department and Amritsar police workedtogether and shared important information in this regard. In the meeting heldon 20.11.2020 at Amritsar, SSP Rural asked the Excise Department to developsome human intel for success of the operation. The Excise Department developedhuman intel and conveyed to SSP Rural in another meeting held at Amritsar on24.12.2020 and further strategy was discussed.
Accordingly,a joint operation of Excise Department, Excise Police and Amritsar Police wasconducted on 10.11.2020 and the above-mentioned recoveries have made.
An FIRNo.0309 dated 11.12.2020 under section 61/1/14 of the Punjab Excise Act hasbeen got registered in Police Station, Majitha, District Amritsar against theaccused. Those who have been arrested are (1) Kawaljit Singh (Gopi) s/o MangalSingh, VPO Rampura orf Cheta Kallah, District Amritsar, (2) Akashdeep Singh S/oHerra Singh, VPO Meharbanpur Distt. Amritsar (3) Harjit Singh alias Jeeta S/oTota Singh R/o Rampur, PS Chatiwind, (4) Maan Singh S/o Jagir Singh R/o VillageMeharbanpura, PS Jandiala Guru and (5) Kuldeep Singh R/o Jagoana Colony, MahalSub Amritsar. Further investigations are still going on and strict action willbe taken against the defaulters and anyone indulging in such activities.