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illicit liquor seized in Jajpur amid lockdown: 45 litres

Jajpur: Excise authorities Wednesday held onto a get van conveying 45 liters of unlawful alcohol at the vegetable market here. The driver of the vehicle has been kept and is being cross examined.

Sources said vegetables from Kolkata are gotten vehicles every day. Like each other day the pickup van showed up at the vegetable market here Wednesday morning.

Extract authorities in any case, had been warned with respect to the unlawful alcohol in the van. They looked through the van and found the alcohol fixed in bottles. To conceal the jugs from attentive gazes, a few sacks of vegetables had been set over it.

It ought to be expressed here that alcohol shops in Odisha have stayed shut since the inconvenience of lockdown March 25. This has prompted the prospering of unlawful alcohol exchange over the state. Despite the fact that limitations have been facilitated during Lockdown 4.0, the exchange is as yet proceeding. Most assortments of alcohol are being sold at multiple times their unique cost, said sources.

 

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