2 wine shops booked for breaching licence condition
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 13: In order to gear-up the field functioning of the Excise Department, the Commissioner Excise Rajesh Kumar Shavan took a detailed review today.
Deputy Excise Commissi-oners Executive, Distilleries, Accounts attended the meeting alongwith concerned ETOs and Inspectors.
While deliberating upon the issue of drug menace, the Commissioner directed the officers to intensify the checking and lay random nakas/checks in their areas of jurisdiction. He exhorted the officers to work with dedication and zeal to realize the revenue targets and directed to ensure that not even a single penny loss to the UT exchequer should occur.
Besides, the revenue realization, the aspect of under-served and un-served area was also discussed and the ETOs were directed to come up with fresh proposals in the interest of the Government, so that illegal distillation and bootlegging is arrested.
Commissioner enjoined upon the officers to strengthen their teams of checking and regularly inspect the establishments to detect all sort of mal practices.
Meanwhile, as a sequel to the instructions, the enforcement team of Excise, conducted raids at 8 locations in the Jammu city to check violation of the Act. After checks it was observed that two wine shops viz. Sunny Wine Shop and Raj Wine Shop have breached the licence condition and accordingly were booked under Excise Act. Further, one banquet hall namely Shiv Shakti Palace serving liquors meant for CSD was also booked.
Those who conducted the raids included Nipin Tickoo, ETO Excise Range South, Narinder Singh Anthal, ETO Eradication assisted by Inspectors Bikramjeet Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Susheel Khajuria and Anil Kumar.
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