Mandya: The Excise Department has cracked the whip following bribery allegations involving Excise Deputy Commissioner Ravi Shankar and Maddur Excise Inspector Shivashankar Aaradhya, who are accused of demanding a bribe of Rs. 20 lakh to process a bar and restaurant licence. The State Excise Commissioner in Bengaluru has issued orders to suspend Inspector Shivashankar Aaradhya…
Mysuru: The Excise Department, which had seized 433.82 litres liquor and 91.140 litres of beer in 13 cases, has destroyed the seized liquor as per the order from the Mysuru Rural District Excise Deputy Commissioner. The seized liquor was destroyed on Nov. 15 in the presence of Hunsur Sub-Division Excise Department Deputy Superintendent M.D. Mohan…
Bengaluru: Opposition Leader in Legislative Assembly R. Ashok has alleged that, large scale irregularities amounting up to Rs. 900 crore is suspected to have occurred in the Excise Department, that demands the resignation of Excise Minister R.B. Thimmapur and the intervention of Enforcement Directorate (ED). Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Ashok said, earlier rowdies…
Bengaluru: Beleaguered Congress Government in the State that is in news for wrong reasons due to multi-crore scam at Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited, site scam at Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and Karnataka State Waqf Board claiming ownership of farm lands and other long held assets of mutts and temples, has…
Mysuru: S. Guruswamy, President of Federation of Wine Merchants Association, Karnataka, has alleged large scale irregularities of several hundreds crores of rupees in Excise Department, pinning the blame on Excise Minister R.B. Thimmapur as the progenitor of corruption. Speaking to a vernacular news channel, Guruswamy said, the irregularities is not merely valued between Rs. 18…
Mysore/Mysuru: As a measure to conduct the LS polls in a free and fair manner, the Excise Department has set up Control Rooms across the district to receive complaints of any illegal activities or illegalities in respect of production, stocking, transportation and distribution of liquor. Control Room phone numbers are as follows: Office of the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Even before the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct in the district for the forthcoming Assembly elections, the Excise Department has strengthened its actions against unauthorised sale of liquor besides curbing the movement of liquor across the district and the Constituencies that come under it. The Department has drawn up an elaborate plan…
Two arrested, 650 litres spirit, labels, packing machines, two bikes seized Mysore/Mysuru: A team of Excise Department officials and staff, who raided a duplicate liquor manufacturing unit on the outskirts of city yesterday, have arrested two persons besides seizing 650 litres spirit, labels, three packing machines and two bikes from them. The raid was conducted…
Mysore/Mysuru: Despite just 4-hour business (6 am – 10 am) during lockdown in Mysuru, the Excise Department has managed to increase sales by 10 to 15 percent. The short purchase window period has not deterred anyone from purchasing their favourite booze. Even the Government does not seem to be feeling much of a pinch as…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Excise Department has taken measures to curb storage, transportation and sale of illicit liquor in the district. In a press release, the Deputy Commissioner of Excise said that despite lockdown and semi-lockdown in force in several States, the illicit liquor tragedy in a Uttar Pradesh village, which claimed the lives of at least…
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