Excise & Taxation Department Conduct Raids Liquor Selling Units

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Chandigarh 13^th August:- To weed out any illegal activity concerning sale and consumption of liquor the Excise Wing of the Department has conducted surprise raids on various units involved in the sale of liquor . The raid was done on the directions of Dr. S.B. Deepak Kumar, I.A.S. Deputy Commissioner–cum-Excise and Taxation Commissioner, U.T, Chandigarh. This operation continued till 4 pm in the morning. A team comprising of S K Garg, Excise & Taxation Officer (excise) , Munish Nayyar and S.S. Bedi both excise & taxation officers (VAT), excise inspectors Pardeep Manda, Sat Pal & Partap Singh along with police. Team raided in a planned and surprise move at M/s Nuclear Hospitality, popularly known as "PARA" who is running a discotheque situated Centra Mall, phase 1, Indl Area, Chandigarh. The unit was found blatantly flouting many rules and regulations of Excise & VAT. It was running the liquor bar beyond 1.a.m which is not permissible as Excise Rules. Liquor being consumed there was not against valid pass & permit issued by Excise Department, also not issuing proper sale invoices and not filing VAT returns regularly. Taking a serious view these serious offences, bar has been sealed on instruction of the higher officers and the operations of the discotheque have been stopped till further orders.

In another raid on Miami Club in sector 9, it was found that the club was running bar without a liquor license. This club has also been sealed following the orders of the competent To break the nexus of any illegal supply of liquor in the city, a bottling plant M/s Ideal Distillers Pvt Ltd situated in phase 1, Industrial Area has also been surprised inspected. As a result many anomalies have been found. A show cause notice has been issued. The plant faces serious consequences in view of these anomalies.

Kashish Mittal, I.A.S, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh has confirmed these raids and said that the department is very serious to eradicate  illegal activities indulged by any licensee/vendor or boot-legers in existence in liquor trade and also to curb evasion in value added tax. No leniency shall be shown to the offenders.  These raids would also help in protecting the Excise and tax Revenue.