Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: Police in Akhnoor area here claimed today they have arrested a bootlegger with 52 bottles of illicit liquor.
A police spokesperson said that information was received at police station Akhnoor regarding one bootlegger selling illicit liquor in the area under the jurisdiction of Police Station Akhnoor.
On this, he said, a team of Police Station Akhnoor led by SHO Zaheer Mushtaq laid a special naka at Kallewali Sohal Road and rounded up a suspected person.
On search of his belongings, the spokesperson said that 52 bottles of illicit liquor of JK Special Whiskey were recovered.
The accused identified as Pawan Kumar of Dhok Khalsa, Akhnoor, has been accordingly arrested and booked in case FIR number 7/2023 under sections 48-A of the Excise Act registered at Police Station Akhnoor and further investigation taken up.
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