Illicit liquor being smuggled in the name of medicine during MP Election
Reportedly the team of Sales Tax Department has seized liquor worth more than Rs 1 crore in Shivpuri district of MadhyaPradesh. The special thing is that illicit liquor was being smuggled in the name of medicine. Due to strictness inchecking suspicious vehicles on the highway during elections, this liquor was smuggled from ludhiana toMaharashtra and was caught from a truck. It is being told that the Sales Tax Commissioner of Shivpuri receivedinformation from an informer that liquor was being illegally loaded in a truck and was being taken from ludhiana,Punjab to Maharashtra. The price of liquor is more than one crore rupees. On receiving the information, heinstructed Assistant Commissioner Commerce Tax Jaya Sharma to take action in the matter.After this, the Sales Tax team started chasing the suspicious vehicle on the highway and stopped the truck nearvillage Sumela of Badarwas and started investigation. When the e-bill (bilty) presented by the truck driver waschecked, the medicine was loaded in the truck as per the billty. When the Sales Tax team opened the truck andchecked it, liquor was found instead of medicine. The Sales Tax team seized the truck and kept it in the policestation, opened the truck and started counting the liquor. According to departmental estimates, liquor worth morethan Rs 1 crore is said to be in the truck.Thirty lakhs seized in PannaAssistant Commissioner Commerce Tax Jaya Sharma said that legal action will be taken in the case of smugglingthrough the police only after the counting of liquor boxes is completed. He said that the calculation of tax evasionwill be decided on the basis of MRP and market value of liquor. At present further action is going on. At the sametime, Panna police has got great success. police have recovered cash worth Rs 30 lakh 11 thousand and silverjewelery worth Rs 11 lakh from the vehicle of Uttar Pradesh. This action, based on the information given by aninformer during checking, has created a stir. Giving information about recovery of such a huge amount duringelection checking, Panna police said that they are taking proper action by seizing the money and silver jewellery.The possibility of its use in elections is being investigated. This is the biggest action of Bundelkhand so far.