Uttarakhand allows distillery units in hills, liquor licence only to natives
Outsiders cannot get wholesale liquor licences, only Uttarakhand natives and permanent residents can avail the same.
Police on Monday raided a house in village Katiawali and recovered 23,000 litres of illicit liquor stored in drums.
On a tip off, police raided the house and found two dozen drums filled with liquor buried under the ground.
The manufacturers of the illicit liquor fled from the spot. Police have booked them under relevant sections of the IPC.
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