Chatra: A hooch factory operating from a tractor was busted at Kataiya village under Vashisth Nagar police station limits on Thursday, district excise superintendent Ashish Kumar Pandey said.
Kingpin Munna Sahu was mixing spirit with caramel and essence to prepare spurious liquor. The liquor was bottled and stamped with counterfeit labels of IMFL brands and their holograms, police said.
A total of 504 spurious liquor bottles marked with fake IMFL labels, caps, caramel, bottling equipment, a tractor were seized, Pandey said.
“Sahu and his accomplices fled to an adjoining forest area. Raids are underway to nab them,” police said.
The crackdown was part of a drive against spurious liquor manufacturing, storage, and sale ahead of Puja, the excise superintendent said. TNN
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