Pune: Police Seize Beer Bottles from Milk Tempo in Katraj and ‘friendly stock’ in Daund
Pune rural police seize beer bottles in Daund.
Pune, April 14, 2020: The lockdown has put the shutter down on all shops including wine shops. A few days back, a wine shop was broken and liquor worth Rs 76,000 was stolen.
On Monday night, Pune City Police seized beer bottles worth Rs 29,000 from a tempo carrying milk packets in Katraj. According to police, during checking at a check post, the tempo driver was evading questions. Later cops found 12 boxes of Kingfisher beer hidden below milk crates. Now an FIR has been registered with Bharati Vidyapeeth police station against the tempo driver.
In another action by Pune rural police, acting on a tip-off received by DySP Aishwarya Sharma raided a shop in Kumbhargalli in Daund on Monday night and nabbed two persons. Police seized beer worth Rs 34,000 from their possession.
The arrested persons Bapu Shankar Waghmare (28) and Akshay Gorakh Gholap (26), both residents of Kumbhargalli, Daund, had kept stock of beer bottles in the deep freeze and used to sell them to their acquaintances. Cops seized beer bottles worth Rs 31,350 from Waghmare and beer worth Rs 2640 from Gholap. Separate FIRs have been registered against them.
Nationwide lockdown extended till May 3
Prime Minister Narendra in his address to the nation today, which is the last day of 21 days nationwide lockdown, said that the lockdown across India has been extended till May 3. There will be some relaxations in places where there are less or no Coronavirus positive cases.
“We had taken steps very early before it turned into a big problem. We had stopped crowded places like malls, gym, and educational institutions etc very early. Even when India did not have a single corona patient, India had begun screening passengers from #COVID19 affected countries. Even before #COVID19 cases touched 100, India made it compulsory for foreign returnees to remain in 14 days isolation. We imposed 21-day lockdown when we had 550 cases. People are fighting Coronavirus like disciplined soldiers”, PM Modi said.
