Lucknow: Barely two days after his gruesome death in a shootout in Delhi, billionaire Ponty Chadha's liquor and other businesses in Uttar Pradesh could be the first casualty of the incident, government officials said on Monday. While admitting that it was a bit "early" to speculate about such an eventuality, officials said that Ponty's death could mean bad news for his Wave Group. "Other than the money that he so...
02:56 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: A firing incident has been reported from liquor baron Ponty Chadha's farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area in which one person has been killed. The person killed is said to be Ponty Chadhas brother while the guard of the farmhouse has been injured. Ponty Chadha, who has several private bodyguards, was present inside the farmhouse when the firing incident took place. But there are no reports of whether he...
02:12 PM, Nov 17, 2012
Hooghly: Seven persons have died after drinking illicit liquor at Payradanga village in this district, police said on Tuesday. About 20 villagers drank liquor on Sunday night and fell sick, following which they were brought to Panduah rural hospital. After their condition deteriorated, they were shifted to the Imambara Sadar Hospital at Chinsurah. While one person died on way to Chinsurah, two others died during treatment there, officials said. As...
09:27 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that no liquor will be sold before 5 pm in bars and hotels, in other words make drinking before that time a crime. The court says that the prohibition of liquor during working hours is necessary as it leads to alcoholism and affects work. But it has clarified that only the government can take a final decision after conducting a detailed examination of...
02:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited (TASMAC) on Monday increased the prices of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) sold through wine shops in the state. According to official sources, the rates have been revised anywhere between Rs 5 and Rs 10 for liquor varieties falling under the ordinary and medium segments, comprising brandy and whiskey. In a few elite segments such as Scotch, the revision is around Rs...
03:48 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Noida: An Army jawan was arrested on Monday by the sleuths of district excise department in Noida for allegedly smuggling illicit liquor, a senior official said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of excise department intercepted the car of Army jawan Kapil Kumar and recovered 75 litres of illicit liquor from his possession, District Excise Officer Kuldeep Yadav said. A case under Excise Act has been registered against Kumar while...
08:21 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Chennai: Irked over his employer not paying his salary, a 32-year-old driver escaped with a van loaded with TASMAC liquor worth Rs 14 lakh from its godown at Ambattur Industrial Estate. Hours after he threw a party to his friends with the stolen liquor in his hometown in Tiruvannamalai district and much before he could sell the rest of goods and vehicle to make easy money, he landed in police...
12:42 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu government has allowed five star hotels in Chennai and Tiruchirappally to serve liquor round the clock while extending the benefit to similar establishments in Madurai and Coimbatore provided they paid two times of the privilege fee. "Provided further that the hours of business for five star hotels in Chennai and Tiruchirappally, where the International Civil Airports are situated and the five star hotels in the cities of...
04:01 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Jammu: In order to keep a check on smuggled and illicit liquor in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir government will soon put security holograms on liquor bottles. "The excise department is in the process of affixation of security holograms on liquor bottles in a time-bound manner which will greatly help check smuggled and illicit liquor in the market, if any", Minister for Finance Abdul Rahim Rather said. The minister...
02:30 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Liquor syndicate leader B Balraj Goud, who was arrested by the ACB in April has reportedly stated in his confessional statement that horticulture minister Ramreddy Venkat Reddys close aides have nearly 200 liquor shops in the three districts of Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medak. He also told the ACB that former MLA D K Bharatsimha Reddy owns 150 liquor shops in the city and other places. Goud has reporteldy revealed...
10:55 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Hyderabad: After a brief lull, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday took liquor merchants across the state by surprise by raiding the offices and residences of several of them and arresting 20 persons. Some of the arrested were produced in the court, while the rest will be presented on Thursday. The raids were conducted simultaneously in the districts of Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nellore, Kadapa, Anantapur, Chittoor, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam,...
10:24 AM, Jun 07, 2012
HYDERABAD: Feeling humiliated by the state government deliberately posting an officer above him, senior IPS officer D Boobathi Babu, who is heading the liquor syndicate probe, has proceeded on a long leave.Top sources said that after the government posted B Prasada Rao as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) chief on Saturday, Boobathi Babu, who had been heading the bureau till then, is understood to have submitted a letter to chief secretary Pankaj...
10:11 AM, May 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people died on Friday after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada town of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, two others are stated to be in critical conditions. The incident took place on Friday morning at Brahmanaveedhi in the old town of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 300 km from here. A police officer said all the six were suspected to have purchased and consumed liquor from the...
02:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Patna: Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district's Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad's Judahi village. Savita Kumari from Khaira called off the wedding when she found her groom sloshed to the...
11:31 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a retired District Collector and 11 others in connection with the liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh. N Nageshwar Rao, former Collector and District Magistrate of Khammam and others have been accused of not initiating any action on the cancellation of licenses of 16 liquor shops in Khammam. On March 4, the ACB had arrested four officials of the Excise Department on charges...
06:20 AM, Apr 25, 2012
VIZIANAGARAM/HYDERABAD: The normally placid town of Vizianagaram teetered on the edge of chaos on Monday with TDP and Congress workers massing in the main street as part of the ongoing war of words between TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana.Displaying a stop me if you can attitude, Naidu and his men marched on to the district collectorate, defying prohibitory orders and police barricades.Botcha preferred to stay put...
09:38 AM, Apr 24, 2012
HYDERABAD: Two months before liquor trade licences are to expire, PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana is learnt to have decided to counter the charges that he is involved in liquor syndicate operations. He is all set to meet chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and request him to cancel the liquor trade licences owned by white ration card holders in the state.Earlier, Satyanarayana had written to the chief minister demanding cancellation...
09:37 AM, Apr 19, 2012
HYDERABAD: With the ACB turning up the heat on them, the shadow players who used white ration card holders to corner liquor licences are sending them on urgent pilgrimages to prevent anticorruption personnel from asking them difficult questions. Faced with locked houses and absent below-povertyline liquor licence holders, the ACB is taking pains to assure them that its target is not the poor proxies but the puppeteers behind them.The agency...
08:58 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Hyderabad: CNN-IBN's report on the Andhra Pradesh liquor scam continues to have a ripple effect across the state with the High Court on Monday asking the state government to review the transfer of K Sreenivasa Reddy from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to the Coastal Security Department. Reddy, who was the Additional Director of ACB, had busted a liquor scam allegedly involving some top Andhra Pradesh politicians. The orders of Reddy's...
03:31 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appears to be very determined to take the investigation into the illegal activities of the liquor syndicates to its logical end, despite pressure on him to go easy on it. Though he transferred ACB additional director K Srinivas Reddy, who was supervising the investigation, Kiran wants the probe to continue so that the culprits could be brought to book. In fact, the chief...
11:24 AM, Apr 09, 2012
