Liquor, drugs seized in State
THE GOAN NETWORK
PANAJI
The raids by the State election machinery and its teams have continued to bear fruit with liquor and narcotics seizures taking the total worth of liquor seized to ₹40.83 lakh and drugs to ₹16.43 lakh.
Interestingly, in what could be seen as an effect of demonetisation, elections authorities are yet to make any cash seizures.
Information provided by the Election Commission has also revealed that on January 25, the police department seized 17,417 litres of liquor while the State excise department seized 536.98 bulk litres of liquor. This takes the total seizure to 30.9 bulk litres valued at ₹40.83 lakh since the code of conduct came into force.
Also on Wednesday, the Police seized 274 grams of MDMA and 47 grams of ganja.
The Election Commission has looked into eight complaints of violation of the code and only two required further investigation and involved detaining vehicles at Patradevi
In South Goa, the flying squad stopped the work of installing a prefabricated bus shelter for being in violation of the code of conduct, caught a Karnataka registered bus while attempting to smuggle liquor into Karnataka and is investigating a complaint by the Tiatr Academy of Goa that tiatrist Agostinho Temudo was canvassing on behalf of Navelim independent candidate Avertano Furtado.
