The Devbhumi Dwarka police conducted a raid in a factory in Punjab where ayurvedic syrup was manufactured for Gujarat markets. According to a report, the police seized raw material which was enough to make additional two lakh bottles of such syrup.
The alcoholic ayurvedic syrup, which was gaining in popularity, was marketed as an ayurvedic herbal drink at betel shops across the state.
Police are questioning Pankaj Khosla, in charge of the factory in Sangrur district of Punjab. The report added that the Devbhumi Dwarka police had clamped down on a similar racket at Changodar in Ahmedabad.
Devbhumi Dwarka superintendent of police (SP) Nitesh Pandey told the media house, “We raided the factory in Punjab and after interrogating Khosla, we came to know that he was misusing the terms and conditions of the excise and foods and drugs departments there. He was manufacturing ayurvedic syrup with added alcohol and selling it in the name of self-generated alcohol targeting the Gujarat market.”
Police claimed the accused were selling alcoholic syrup freely in Gujarat, making fake bills with fictitious GST numbers for transportation of the material to Gujarat.
A distributor named Chirag Thobhani, a resident of Ahmedabad, alerted the police about the supplies. He was in police custody for alleged links with the Changodar factory.
Thobhani had been detained, following the statement of driver Akram Najir Banva, arrested after police seized a truck on August 6 near Bhanvadi village of Khambhalia taluka. The report added that the police seized 15,624 bottles of the syrup that had self-generated alcohol of not more than 11 to 12%.
While Thobhani has emerged as the common link in both Changodar and Punjab factories, the suppliers and buyers for the syrup from the two factories are not the same, the report added.
The Devbhumi Dwarka police conducted a raid in a factory in Punjab where ayurvedic syrup was manufactured for Gujarat markets. According to a report, the police seized raw material which was enough to make additional two lakh bottles of such syrup.
The alcoholic ayurvedic syrup, which was gaining in popularity, was marketed as an ayurvedic herbal drink at betel shops across the state.
Police are questioning Pankaj Khosla, in charge of the factory in Sangrur district of Punjab. The report added that the Devbhumi Dwarka police had clamped down on a similar racket at Changodar in Ahmedabad.
Devbhumi Dwarka superintendent of police (SP) Nitesh Pandey told the media house, “We raided the factory in Punjab and after interrogating Khosla, we came to know that he was misusing the terms and conditions of the excise and foods and drugs departments there. He was manufacturing ayurvedic syrup with added alcohol and selling it in the name of self-generated alcohol targeting the Gujarat market.”
Police claimed the accused were selling alcoholic syrup freely in Gujarat, making fake bills with fictitious GST numbers for transportation of the material to Gujarat.
A distributor named Chirag Thobhani, a resident of Ahmedabad, alerted the police about the supplies. He was in police custody for alleged links with the Changodar factory.
Thobhani had been detained, following the statement of driver Akram Najir Banva, arrested after police seized a truck on August 6 near Bhanvadi village of Khambhalia taluka. The report added that the police seized 15,624 bottles of the syrup that had self-generated alcohol of not more than 11 to 12%.
While Thobhani has emerged as the common link in both Changodar and Punjab factories, the suppliers and buyers for the syrup from the two factories are not the same, the report added.
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