Chittoor, Anantapur cops bust arrack trade

Tirupati: Chittoor and Anantapur district police carried out simultaneously raids on Monday and seized large quantities of arrack . Special party police and Ramakuppam police jointly raided PMK Thanda in Chittoor district and seized 300 litres of illicitly distilled arrack, destroyed 1,500 litres of jaggery wash and arrested four persons.

Meanwhile, in Anantapur district, police seized 271 liquor bottles, 991 litres of illicitly distilled arrack and destroyed 25,258 litres of jaggery wash. On the same day Guntur rural police seized nearly Rs 6 lakh worth liquor stock being smuggled from Telangana in the early hours of Monday and arrested two persons, including the vehicle driver. tnn