Man held for selling liquor from his home in Jaunpur

VARANASI: Jaunpur police arrested a man red-handed, selling liquor from his house in Punjabi Market of Kesari Bazar area under Kotwali police station on Sunday.
“A man identified as Manik Sethi had been booked under Section 60 of Excise Act and sent to jail following recovery of dozens of bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) packed in two boxes from his house,” said Kotwali inspector Pawan Upadhyaya.
A few traders of Punjabi Market had initially filed a complaint against Sethi at Kotwali police station stating that he had been selling liquor from his house, thereby violating the lockdown norms.However, when no action was initiated, they alerted the ADM (finance and revenue) Ram Prakash, who directed excise department officials and police to look into the matter.
A joint team of excise department and police raided the house when Sethi was caught red-handed. A case was registered against him and he was arrested.
Rumour had it that Sethi’s father was an office bearer of the minority cell of Bhartiya Janata Party. A banner of Guru Singh Sabha Langar was also displayed at the house.
However, when Jaunpur unit chief of BJP, Pushpraj Singh, was contacted on Monday, it came to light that Sethi did not hold any position in any wing of the party currently and was expelled from BJP back in 2000.