Pune: Bar operator and Lonikand booze shop owner booked

PUNE: The Chatushrungi police filed a case of disobedience against a bar operator on Baner Road and seized liquor bottles worth Rs15,000 after its employees were found surreptitiously selling them via the back door of the establishment while keeping the front gates locked.
According to the Chatushrungi police, a night patrolling team found a few motorcycles parked in front of a bar on Baner Road late on Sunday.On closer inspection they found that the bar employees were selling foreign liquor bottles to the group of men. The police then asked the group to leave the spot immediately and later seized all the liquor bottles from the bar.
Police said liquor bottles worth Rs15,000 have been seized and a case against the bar operator has been filed under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
In a similar case, the Lonikand police in rural Pune booked the owner of a liquor shop for selling beer in violation of the district collector’s order imposing a total shutdown of liquor shops and bars in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.
A night patrolling team of the Lonikand police on Monday heard commotion at a spot behind a closed liquor shop at Khandvenagar in Wagholi. The police team went to the spot and found a group of men sitting behind the shop and drinking beer.
The police took down their details and seized all the beer bottles in the shop, worth Rs5,880. The police said the group of men and the liquor shop owner had breached the provisions of CrPC 144 and thus a case against them was registered under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
The police have ordered all the liquor shop owners and bar owners to keep their establishments closed and not to serve liquor illegally to their patrons, said senior inspector Anil Shewale of the Chatushrungi police.