Assam: Students Ransack Liquor Stores in Protest at Chapar

GUWAHATI: For the past two days in Chapar, Assam's Dhubri District, students have been protesting the sale of foreign alcohol in the region.

Things became much worse, after they stormed into liquor stores and wrecked them, destroying cartons full of liquor bottles. Following police invasion into the matter to be taken into control.

Students were protesting the opening of liquor outlets. Police allegedly used lathi charges to disperse the protesters on Wednesday. A number of students, outraged by the lathi charge, took matters into their own hands, heightening tensions. As part of their demonstrations, students in Salkocha, Chapar, demolished liquor outlets today. 

Earlier this month, a substantial quantity of illicit IMFL (India Made Foreign Liquor) was confiscated by the Excise department from an illegal manufacturing plant in Guwahati.

The department raided the Shiva Group in the Kamarkuchi region of Sonapur on the basis of a tip and confiscated 86 bottles of whiskey intended for sale in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.

During the operation, two more people were detained. Later, the two were taken into jail by the authorities. The department also shut the unauthorised unit. Two other people, on the other hand, were fined Rs 5,000 for drinking alcohol in a public location under the 'Assam Excise Act.' The suspects were apprehended on the GS Road and in Rajgarh by department personnel.

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