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Liquor to cost less in Telangana as special cess removed

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Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Friday has given a sign of approval for the proposition of the Telangana State Beverages Corporation Limited to decrease the current Exceptional price of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and Foreign Liquor (other than beer).
Beginning on Friday, the stocks shipped from the bottling units will be subject to the revised Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rates.
The revised rates anticipate a reduction of Rs.10 on liquor bottles of 90 and 180 millilitres (ml), Rs.20 on bottles of 375 ml, and Rs.40 on bottles of 750 ml.

As of Friday, the liquor manufactured that is still in depots or stores, which includes stock in transit and waiting trucks before the depots, will be sold at the current MRP.
At a teleconference with officials on Friday, Prohibition and Excise Commissioner Sarfaraz Ahmad stated that the liquor manufactured from May 5, 2023, is directed to bear price stickers with new MRP and sold at new rates.
The commissioner further ordered to display of a new MRP in all wine retailers.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 6, 2023
Kejriwal welcomed YSR Congress MP Magunta Sriniavasulu Reddy into Delhi liquor business

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New Delhi: In its third supplementary chargesheet filed in the Delhi excise policy scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has mentioned that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal welcomed the entry of YSR Congress MP Magunta Sriniavasulu Reddy into the Delhi liquor business.
Srinivas Reddy’s son Raghav Magunta was later arrested in the matter.
“K Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, held meetings with Vijay Nair prior and post the policy was drafted and came in effect. Similarly, Magunta Sriniavasulu Reddy also held a meeting with the CM of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal wherein Kejriwal welcomed his entry into the Delhi liquor business,” the ED has mentioned.

The ED has alleged that though the manufacturers were seemingly supposed to take this crucial decision on their own as per their choice, but investigation revealed that Pernod Ricard, one of the biggest manufacturers in the country and also a subject in the ongoing investigation, was in fact directed by and conspired with Vijay Nair to give their wholesale distribution business to the accused Indo Spirits (L1 wholesaler), which was a part of the Super Cartel covered in the prosecution complaint.
Further, there is evidence of the manufacturers paying kickbacks through their wholesalers in this policy in exchange for benefits of private retail introduction.
Vijay Nair, on behalf of leaders of the AAP, received kickbacks to the tune of Rs 100 cr from a group; for convenience it can be called the South Group (as termed in the statements of various persons recorded during the investigation), whose prominent members are Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghav Magunta, Sarath Reddy and K Kavitha. The South Group was represented by Abhishek Boinpally, Arun Pillai and Buchi Babu. Abhishek Boinpalli facilitated the transfer of a Rs 100 cr kickback in connivance and conspiracy with Vijay Nair and his associate Dinesh Arora.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 1, 2023
Delhi HC seeks ED’s response on liquor bizman’s bail plea in excise policy case

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s response on liquor businessman Sameer Mahendru’s plea seeking bail on medical grounds in the money-laundering case pertaining to the now-scrapped liquor excise policy.
Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma asked the ED to submit a status report and a verification report regarding Mahendru’s health claims.
Mahendru must appear in court on May 1 while on interim bail that was already granted by a trial court on medical grounds. He has requested regular bail as well as an extension of the interim bail of at least 12 weeks, claiming that his surgery is scheduled for May 5 and that he needs to get post-surgery care.

His lawyer claimed that the trial court later prolonged the businessman’s interim bail, which had been granted on February 28 and the accused is still in poor health and that he has placed on record the most recent medical documents.
On February 28, the court had granted interim bail to Mahendru on medical grounds for a period of 30 days after he claimed he was suffering from various ailments.
Later, on March 29, the trial court had extended Mahendru’s interim bail.
Earlier this month, the court had again extended the interim bail granted to Mahendru for a period of seven days while adjourning the matter due to the ongoing protest by advocates.
The ED had earlier alleged that Mahendru is the kingpin and the focal point around which the entire criminal conspiracy developed and he was essential to the cartel’s establishment and ensuring the repayment of the kickback amounts.

Mahendru has been chargesheeted by both the investigating agencies
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 25, 2023
BJP leader among 2 held with illicit liquor worth Rs 10 lakh

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Pilibhit: A BJP leader was among two persons allegedly arrested with illicit liquor worth Rs 10 lakh in the Barkheda police station area of this Uttar Pradesh district on Friday.
According to a statement issued by the Superintendent of Police (SP), a team from Barkheda Police Station, along with the joint team of the excise department recovered a large amount of illicit liquor from a vehicle and arrested two accused.
The two accused have been identified as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) district media in-charge Shyam Bihari Bhojwal and Babu, a resident of Gadarpur police station, Kotwali Sadar, district Rudrapur in Uttarakhand.

BJP district president Sanjeev Pratap Singh said Bhojwal is the former district media incharge and added that a report for further action will be taken once the police investigation gets over.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 15, 2023
Delhi liquor scam: YSRCP MP’s son tried to derail probe, ED retrieves chats

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New Delhi: Raghav Magunta, son of YSR Congress Party MP from Andhra Pradesh’s Ongole Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, recorded false statement before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam and also destroyed crucial evidence to derail the probe, the ED has claimed in the charge sheet, a source said.
Magunta was placed under arrest on February 10 this year by the ED.
He was grilled at length and later the ED filed a second supplementary charge sheet naming him as one of the accused.

The ED has claimed that Magunta recorded a fake statement under section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The statement pertaining to his control of Magunta Agro Farms and Pixie Enterprises.
“It was a fictitious account which he told us. We learnt it during the course of investigation. We seized his phone, but he had deleted the entire data. It was crucial evidence which he destroyed. His intention was to derail the investigation,” said the source.
Later, the ED retrieved his chats with Buchi Babu from Babu’s cell phone. The ED source said that Magunta’s chats were intact in the phone of Buchi Babu while in his own cell phone there was no data, which proved that crucial evidence was deliberately destroyed. It was a crucial chat which the ED needed to prove the duo’s guilt.
“Magunta has changed his mobile phone multiple times during the period of commission of the predicate offence and later on. Most importantly the phone containing the data of the relevant period of scam has not been found,” the ED has claimed

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 12, 2023
Two caught in Bihar’s Gaya for smuggling liquor in ambulance coffin

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Patna: Two persons were arrested in Bihar’s Gaya on Monday on the charge of smuggling liquor from Jharkhand, concealed in the coffin of an ambulance, Excise Department officials said.
The accused, identified as Lalit Kumar Mahto, a resident of Ranchi, and Pankaj Kumar Yadav, a resident of Chatra district in Jharkhand, had put a coffin in an ambulance to smuggle liquor. The excise sleuths have recovered 212 bottles of Indian Made Foreign Liquors of different brands inside the coffin.
The incident came to light on Monday morning when the accused came from Jharkhand via NH19. They were intercepted at Dobhi check post in Gaya district.
“We were doing routine checking of vehicles coming from Jharkhand and West Bengal. We have spotted an ambulance coming from NH19. Our personnel stopped the ambulance. When we asked the driver Mahto, he said that a dead body was inside the coffin. When we asked them to open the coffin, they became uncomfortable. When we opened the coffin, 212 liquor bottles of different brands were found in it,” Gaya’s Excise Inspector Dipak Kumar Singh said.
The accused were booked under relevant sections of liquor prohibition act.
Liquor has been banned in Bihar since April 2016. Still, smugglers are using different modus operandi to smuggle liquor from neighbouring states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh. A large number of smugglers also used the Nepal border route to smuggle liquor bottles.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 27, 2023
No SC relief for Kavitha against ED summons in liquor policy case

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday did not grant stay on summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to K. Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
Kavitha had moved the apex court against her questioning and also sought protection from arrest by the ED regarding a money laundering case connected with alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Kavitha, submitted before a bench headed by Justice Ajay Rastogi that it is on the question whether she would have to be interrogated here or at her residence. Sibal added that summons were issued to his client for investigation.
The bench did not give any interim relief to her on protection from arrest or stayed the ED summons. However, the top court agreed to examine the legal point if a woman can be summoned to the ED office under CrPC/PMLA. The top court tagged it along with a similar plea filed by Nalini Chidambaram and Ruchira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed it saying that Abhishek Banerjee’s matter is different. Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju, representing the ED, said summons have been issued and this petition is infructuous. However, the top court listed the matter after three weeks.
Kavitha’s plea said her name has not been mentioned in the FIR registered by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi’s deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was also arrested by the CBI for alleged corruption in framing a new liquor policy, which was later withdrawn.
Kavitha’s counsel had previously told the court that she had appeared before the ED earlier this month but the repeated summons were contrary to law because the petitioner was a woman. “That despite the petitioner not being named in the FIR, certain members of the incumbent ruling political party at the Centre made scandalous statements linking the petitioner to the Delhi excise policy…,” said the plea.
Kavitha accused the ED of acting in “extremely shameful” manner and as per a “larger conspiracy orchestrated at the behest of the members of the incumbent ruling party at the Centre”.

The petitioner claimed the ED is eliciting false statements from other witnesses by threatening to place them and their family members under arrest.
“The petitioner believes that the investigation against her is nothing more than a fishing expedition being undertaken by the Enforcement Directorate solely at the behest of the incumbent ruling political party,” added the plea.
It further contended that the ED, in teeth of settled law, summoned her to appear before their offices in New Delhi and has confiscated her cellular phone without any written order for production of the phone.
The plea claimed that the petitioner apprehends that she would be physically and mentally coerced by the ED and stressed that there is no case against her.
The plea added that the only basis on which she has been implicated is on the basis of certain statements of a few persons who have given incriminating statements themselves as well as allegedly against her. Kavitha had earlier been questioned by the CBI in the case.
It has been alleged that Kavitha held benami investment in Indospiritis, a liquor firm involved in the scam. ED alleged Arun Ramchandran Pillai represented Kavitha in Indospirits.
The investigating agency has also alleged the South lobby, which included Kavitha, bribed the AAP government to formulate an excise policy to facilitate the companies to win the bids and to form a cartel and control the retail outlets in Delhi.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 27, 2023
Missionary school sealed in MP after liquor, condoms found during inspection

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Bhopal: A missionary school in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district was sealed after liquor and condoms were found in the principal’s room during a surprise inspection.
The inspection was conducted by the State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights on Saturday.
The SCPCR team found beds, liquor and condoms and also egg trays and gas cylinders. “I saw there was a gas cylinder and other objectionable stuff, including liquor bottles. Police are investigating the whole matter,” Nivedita Sharma, a member of the SCPCR inspection team said, adding that she had brought the matter to the notice of the District Collector.
An FIR has been lodged against the principal of the school and a detailed investigation has been demanded from the police.
“When we reached there for a routine inspection, we were surprised to know how both corners of the school were attached from the inside… It was a room and liquor bottles and condoms were found there. It was like a complete residential setup. It does not belong to only one person, but more people came out of the building who were living there. It was being used as an accommodation,” Sharma told IANS.
She further said that at least 15 beds were lying in that room and there was no CCTV camera.
“The question arises that when CCTV cameras are installed in other locations of the building, why was that particular section left out. If the principal said he wasn’t staying there, then who was staying and why 15 beds are present there? More importantly, why does that room have a direct entrance with classrooms of girl students,” Nivedita Sharma said.
She further said that liquor is not allowed on the school campus at all. “It is a violation of the law. The excise department is also taking action on the matter as it is also illegal that nobody can keep such amounts of liquor. Some other objectionable stuff, including condoms, were also found,” she added.

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March 26, 2023
Five arrested in Bihar’s Lakhisarai for consuming liquor

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Patna: A Bihar Excise Department team has arrested five persons, including two elected public representatives and two women, in Lakhisarai district on the charge of consuming liquor, an official said on Thursday.
Liquor has been banned in Bihar since April 2016, still, a large number of people are violating the norms in this dry state.
The accused public representatives were identified as Manohar Kumar, a ward member of Halsi block in Lakhkisarai, who had thrown a liquor party in his house in Halsi village, and Ashok Yadav, a Panchayat secretary of Badhahiya block of the district. Kumar had also invited two women who are said to be bar dancers.
Excise Inspector Rakesh Kumar said: “We had received a tip-off about a liquor party held in the house of Manohar Kumar on Wednesday night. Accordingly, we have conducted a raid and arrested them. The accused were in a drunken stage and they were also involved in immoral activities with women. The 5th accused is a domestic help of Manohar Kumar.”
All five have been booked under relevant sections of the prohibition act and sent to jail.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 23, 2023
Noida: Overcharging Rs 10 for beer lands liquor seller in jail

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Noida: Overcharging a customer Rs 10 for a beer bottle in Noida landed a liquor seller in jail on Wednesday and the outlet’s owner slapped with a penalty of Rs 75,000.
According to the excise department officials, the incident was reported to have happened at a liquor outlet in Roza Jalalpur area of Bisrakh.
The department acted on the complaint, sending a decoy customer to the liquor store, a senior official said.
“The outlet sold a Kingfisher Strong beer of 500 ml to the customer for Rs 130, while it costs Rs 120. We had received complaints from many people about the seller overcharging them amounts like Rs 10 or Rs 20, saying he was charging extra for ‘kharcha paani’,” Excise Inspector Abhinav Shahi told PTI.
On the basis of the evidence, action was taken against the liquor seller Ravi Singh and an FIR was lodged at the local police station under Section 64 (overrating) of the Excise Act and IPC 408 (breach of trust by clerk or servant) after which he was arrested and sent to jail, Shahi said.
District Excise Officer Rakesh Bahadur Singh said a penalty of Rs 75,000 has also been issued to the licensee of the liquor store, identified as Surender Singh, over violation of rules. He has also been warned of strict action on repetition of the offence.
“In case of overrating of liquor at licensed outlets, the first time penalty is Rs 75,000, the second time penalty is Rs 1.50 lakh and if it happens for the third time, the excise department can cancel the licence of the liquor outlet,” Singh told PTI.
“We will ensure strict action against sellers or outlets found working in violation of Excise rules and it could lead to cancellation of liquor licence also,” the DEO said.

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March 22, 2023