LS polls: Liquor and cash amounting to Rs 12 cr seized in Haryana
Chandigarh, April 18, 2019: Haryana Joint Chief Electoral Officer Dr Inder Jeet on Thursday said that liquor and cash amount of Rs 11,95,19,543 has been seized so far by the Haryana Police, Excise and Income Tax departments in the state.
He said that the cash amount of Rs 1,23,60,915 has so far been caught by the police. Apart from this, cash amount of Rs 44,05,600 has so far been caught by the Income Tax department. Thus, total cash of Rs 1,67,66,515 was seized by the Police and Income Tax departments.
He said that the police has so far seized 2,28,284 litres of liquor, which is worth Rs 3,92,71,654. Similarly, 15,597 litres of liquor has been caught by Excise Department, which is worth Rs 23,97,500. Thus, the Excise and Police has caught 2,43,882 litres of liquor, which has a total value of Rs 4,16,69,154.
Besides this, the police has also seized intoxicants worth Rs 4,97,90,834. Apart from this, till now, cash amount more than Rs 38,79,000 and 3.454 kg gold was also seized from the state, which is worth Rs 1,12,60,000.
Dr Inder Jeet said that in order to maintain law and order in the state, 89,672 licensed arms have been deposited by the people in police stations across Haryana. Apart from this, 1,198 criminal cases have been registered and non-bailable warrants have been issued against 9,397 persons. Similarly, 2,05,765 bottles of countrymade liquor, 74,309 bottles of English liquor, 20,414 bottles of beer, 11,918 bottles of illicit liquor, 1,014 kg of ganja including other intoxicants were also seized.
He said that the police has seized ganja, poppy husk, heroin, opium, smack, lohan, charas, sulfa, cocaine doda and sulfa, which has market value of Rs 7,67,820. So far, the intoxicants worth Rs 4,97,90,834 have been seized.
He said that with regard to the violation of the Model Code of Conduct, 1651 complaints have been received from the state on the c-VIGIL App, of which only three complaints are pending and the remaining have been settled by the concerned District Electoral Officers. The residents of Ambala district have registered the maximum of 413 complaints on c-VIGIL app. As many as 238 complaints were registered in district Kurukshetra, 200 in Gurugram, 110 in Hisar, 107 in Karnal and 114 in Sirsa.(agency)