DIMAPUR, APRIL 26 (MExN): Open selling of illicit liquor is going no doubt. Nevertheless, it took the authorities that are to go in proactive mode to check the trend courtesy a ‘letter to the editor’ from a concerned senior citizen. The district administration alongwith the police carried out an ‘anti-liquor raid’ at the Sub-jail ‘Tinali’ and DC Court junction stretch of NH 37 on Tuesday, April 26. This was in response to an open public letter published in one of the local dailies. Similar raids were also carried out in other parts of the town.
Call it a twist of fate or chance most of the illicit liquor shops were found closed when the officials carried out the raid in the after noon. Of the number of shops (selling illicit liquor) that were caught unawares, the owners were booked while several numbers of IMFL were seized. Not surprisingly, supposedly innocent ‘paan shops’ were among those caught defaulting today. The unspecified number of IMFL seized was to be destroyed today, informed EAC (Judicial) Lankonsen Tsanglao who led the raid. The raid was carried under the directive of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur.
The ‘letter to the editor’ had particularly mentioned three booze joints (‘kaccha’ houses), encroaching onto the main road, run by some Nagas at the Sub-jail Tinali junction. It had stated that these joints were being run under the very nose of the authorities in concern.
Call it a twist of fate or chance most of the illicit liquor shops were found closed when the officials carried out the raid in the after noon. Of the number of shops (selling illicit liquor) that were caught unawares, the owners were booked while several numbers of IMFL were seized. Not surprisingly, supposedly innocent ‘paan shops’ were among those caught defaulting today. The unspecified number of IMFL seized was to be destroyed today, informed EAC (Judicial) Lankonsen Tsanglao who led the raid. The raid was carried under the directive of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur.
The ‘letter to the editor’ had particularly mentioned three booze joints (‘kaccha’ houses), encroaching onto the main road, run by some Nagas at the Sub-jail Tinali junction. It had stated that these joints were being run under the very nose of the authorities in concern.
