Spurious IMFL seized

KOLKATA: Sorry to spoil the taste. The expensive drink you might be relishing, could be spurious, manufactured at one of those infamous liquor dens. that usually make country liquor The excise department on Wednesday seized a huge quantity of fake Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) from a hooch-manufacturing den at Jakirghatpara under Joka–II panchayat area of Thakurpukur police station.
The Behala Circle of Excise department led by deputy excise collector Suraktim Mukherjee raided the den and found a huge cache of 111.75 lt IMFL, bottles, labels, essence and flavouring materials, colouring chemicals and adhesives. The liquor was yet to be bottled, said excise sources. “The manufacturers must have a network for supplying this spurious liquor. We won’t be surprised if these bottles get through the big retail outlets. Apparently, the liquors are made with a fine mixture of chemicals without compromising with the original taste and flavour of that particular brand. The labels can also easily pass off as original. The department also seized 650 litres of rectified spirit which would have been used to manufacture more such liquor varieties,” said an officer.
“We are sending the samples for a thorough chemical test to ascertain the impurities added with the liquor. They might be extremely dangerous for human consumption. All the men engaged in manufacturing the liquor, however, managed to escape,” he added. Earlier also, excise sleuths have cracked a massive moonshine producing and distribution racket at Kashtomahal, which had spread it’s tentacles in key towns in the South 24 Parganas, by busting several illegal breweries and hooch dens.