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PANAJI
The Commissioner of Excise, Amit Satija, has informed that the Excise Department has booked 225 cases against wrongdoers for various kinds of violations between April and December 2018. He further said that the number of cases booked stood at 257 in FY 2017-18, which is between April 2017 and March 2018.
Satija said, “These cases are of different kinds of violations, which includes illegal selling of alcohol, people with license to sell in packed bottles but actually selling loose alcohol and wholesalers selling alcohol to retail consumers.”
Few days ago, the members of Small and Medium Hoteliers Association had complained that a lot of wholesalers of alcohol are also selling liquor to retail consumers. Often in Goa, same person has license for wholesale as well as retail of alcohol. Not only that, even the premises of wholesale and retail business are next to each other. As a result, it becomes easy for wholesaler to sell alcohol to final consumer, which is not legal. This is because only retail shops of liquor, hotels and restaurants can sell alcohol to final consumer.
