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Early times report
Jammu, Apr 10: FIR registered by Crime Branch Jammu on a complaint received by it, in which it was alleged that one manufacturers of Indian made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) are exporting huge quantity of liquor to outside the State without legal import permit.
It was alleged in the FIR that fake import permits purported to have been issued by Excise Dept Goa are fabricated by fraudulently means on the basis of which huge quantity of liquor smuggled outside the state. On the basis of these fake import permits are being issued by J&K Excise Dept in conspiracy and connivance with manufacturers syndicates as such the liquor actually smuggled to states other than Goa.
On receipt of complaint a preliminary verification, during the course of verification it has been found that no import permits have been issued to the J&K from Goa. It has been found that on the basis of fake forged import permits alleged to have been issued by the state of Goa.
The excise officials in connivance with Distilleries Units have fabricated and forged fake import permits on the basis of which large consignments of different brands of liquor has shown to have been exported to the state of Goa whereas the record collected and verified revealed that no such brand approved for import by the Govt of Goa and consignments shown to have been dispatched have not reached to Goa and stands smuggled to the other parts of the country, thus debarring the J&K State and Goa State from charging excise duty resulting in loss to the tune of crores of rupees to the state exchequer.
In the FIR it was further alleged that M/S Vijay Agency, Navelim Margoa Sale-City Goa is a non existent unit to whom large number of consignments have been shown to dispatch, even the excise verification certificate which confirms the receipt of the consignments have been found to be fake and fabricated. It has been further found that more than 100 trucks loaded of different brands of liquors have been smuggling on the basis of false and forged records. On the part of the excise officials in connivance Distilleries owners constitute offence u/s 5(2) PC Act 2006 r/w sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120 RPC and 48 Excise Act.
The investigation is going on; no arrest has been made so far.
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