Vijayawada: Youth starts brewing hooch after losing job

TIRUPATI: A youngster who lost his job abroad and returned to the country was caught distilling illicit liquor in Tirupati on Saturday.
According to M Sudheer Babu, assistant excise superintendent, Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB)-Tirupati, SEB sleuths raided a residence near Sri Padmavathi Women’s University in Tirupati after receiving credible information early Saturday.
Excise sleuths seized 70 litres of illicitly-distilled liquor and 400 litres of fermented jaggery wash for distilling hooch, along with 44 one litre bottles of brandy smuggled in from Karnataka.
A 29-year-old youth, identified as Mathavalam Vamsi Krishna Reddy, a native of Thotapalli village in Pakala mandal who relocated to Tirupati, was arrested.
Sudheer Babu said, “Vamsi Krishna Reddy who was earlier working in Malaysia relocated to Tirupati after he recently lost his job. He was deep in debt. Besides working as a freelance techie, Vamsi Krishna took up the illicit brewing of liquor on rented premises near Mahila University. He told us that he developed his expertise in brewing by watching Youtube videos.”