IT Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: Faced with complaints pouring in from Bacchus lovers, UT excise department has decided to launch a massive and random check of more than 200 English and country liquor shops across the Union Territory.

Disclosing this, UT additional excise and taxation commissioner Inderjit Singh Sandhu on Sunday said surprise raids would be carried out to check adulteration in liquor. In fact, ever since the UT excise department announced its liberalised excise policy last year, while the prices of major liquor brands have come down, consumers have regularly been complaining about the quality of liquor being sold at taverns.

“Though we used to check vends for adulteration earlier too, the number of complaints had been increasing over the years. That’s why we now have decided to carry out regular checks and take sealed samples for further examination at different testing laboratories,” an excise official revealed. Sandhu disclosed that liquor vend owners found guilty of adulteration would be punished under the relevant laws. Notably, there has been a sharp rise in the sale of beer and wine in the city ever since the administration switched over to the license system.

Source: The Times of India News Service

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CHANDIGARH: Faced with complaints pouring in from Bacchus lovers, UT excise department has decided to launch a massive and random check of more than 200 English and country liquor shops across the Union Territory.

Disclosing this, UT additional excise and taxation commissioner Inderjit Singh Sandhu on Sunday said surprise raids would be carried out to check adulteration in liquor. In fact, ever since the UT excise department announced its liberalised excise policy last year, while the prices of major liquor brands have come down, consumers have regularly been complaining about the quality of liquor being sold at taverns.

“Though we used to check vends for adulteration earlier too, the number of complaints had been increasing over the years. That’s why we now have decided to carry out regular checks and take sealed samples for further examination at different testing laboratories,” an excise official revealed. Sandhu disclosed that liquor vend owners found guilty of adulteration would be punished under the relevant laws. Notably, there has been a sharp rise in the sale of beer and wine in the city ever since the administration switched over to the license system.

Source: The Times of India News Service

This entry was posted on Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 3:41 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.